The coronavirus pandemic has presented an opportunity to rethink how social studies education is framed. Using global citizenship education to teach about the pandemic properly places global health within the purview of all people and builds an onramp for teachers and students to make this kind of theoretical framing a mainstream part of social…

Purpose: The article unpacks potentials of and resistance towards facilitating meetings between refugee and non-refugee youth in global citizenship education. Design/methodology/approach: The analyses are based on participant observation in a school-based intervention in three locations, developed on the principles of design-based research [DBR].…

There is a great and longstanding divide in visions of the international arena. Some assert that states are the most relevant actors in international politics, and others emphasise the importance of non-state actors as vehicles through which shared ideas and identities are enacted. Typically, cross-national scholarship adopts one of these…

The world environmental movement has gained much strength in recent decades and has led many nations to focus on environmental education. We examine the extent to which this global movement has helped change national textbooks. We also consider the effects of national development, national policy on environmentalism, and the general expansion of…

Given the current international context of instability and uncertainty, we were driven by the desire to utilize a digital game to cut across the complexity of public policy, so as to educate our young with the experience and deep learning to be appreciative, accountable and proactive citizens of a globalized world. Having developed a curriculum…

The "International Society for the Social Studies (ISSS) Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. The following papers are included in the 2016 proceedings: (1) The Emergence of Social Studies in Trinidad and Tobago (Leela Ramsook); (2) Opinions of…

Provides a model for developing global awareness activities in a secondary school. (Author/IRT)

Discusses the views of Paul Gagnon and his book "Democracy's Untold Story." Examines the drawbacks of teaching the type of Western civilization course advocated by Gagnon and argues that schools should continue the quest for a teachable approach to world history. Includes suggestions for improving the typical world history course. (GEA)

Teaching about a multinational corporation (MNC) is a powerful way to raise the global awareness of students. Background information on MNC's and teaching suggestions are provided. (RM)

Presents a four-day unit that helps high school students discover the benefits that social studies education, and specifically global education, have for their careers. Students, working in groups, identify events outside the United States that influence their lives and things they have done which influence the lives of people living in other…

Presents a lesson for secondary school students that uses an area value map to increase student understanding about the geography of international drug production and consumption. Provides a list of necessary classroom materials, suggested background readings for students, procedures to be followed, and a bibliography of references. (DB)

This paper defines globalization as the acceleration and intensification of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations. The paper states that questions as to globalization's effects on the world would probably be answered in different ways in different countries. It discusses the three tensions of…

This article reviews recent changes in the secondary curriculum of Nigerian schools, devoting particular attention to social studies and global education. Global education is infused in the curriculum from seventh through twelfth grade. Included is a course outline for ninth-grade social studies. (JDH)

The imaginative teacher can employ poetry to advance student identification with the world community. Examples are provided. The learning objectives which poetry might facilitate are a commitment to removing human rights violations, an awareness of imperialistic policies, and a recognition of the absurdity of narrow, chauvinistic loyalty. (RM)

Independent high school geography courses are essential because of the subject's pan-scientific nature. Teachers need to develop a set of higher level geography learning objectives and a global perspective in the curriculum, allow adequate time to reinforce these objectives, and teach map-making and analysis. Texts should avoid the "Trivial…