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Mejri, Sami; Meadows, Michelle – International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education, 2022
This article addresses the cultural and educational needs of global learners by shedding light on existing literature focused on issues related to globalization and the internationalization of higher education in the United States. International student mobility promotes cultural and economic changes, which are recognized within this article due…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Classroom Environment, Educational Needs, International Education
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Zakai, Sivan – Social Studies, 2019
Digital technologies collapse distance and accelerate the speed at which information travels. This has made it easier for children to encounter violent clashes from across the globe. Thus, the digital era has raised new questions for educators about how to teach current events in an increasingly globalized world. When children have easy access to…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Teaching Methods, Current Events, Violence
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Kop, Yasar – International Education Studies, 2017
Teaching of social studies has basis of education dynamism that governments maintain to raise qualified and efficient citizens. That's why; being examined programs in question has importance for the global citizen concept which comes up with globalization. Therefore, how to be raised efficient citizens who build both governments' and world's…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Global Approach
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Pollack-Milgate, Howard – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2019
This article argues that vital resources for teaching the relationship of German and the global to advanced undergraduate language students can be found in a critical approach to the rich tradition of cosmopolitanism in canonical German-language texts. One especially rich vein of this tradition is the historical depiction of relationships between…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Miranda Lin – Journal of Global Education and Research, 2018
Using current events to help preservice teachers understand the world they live in encourages preservice teachers to learn about global issues. It also encourages them to develop skills in analytical thinking and reflective judgment by reading and discussing complex real-life scenarios. A semester-long pen-pal project was crafted to help…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Current Events, Teaching Methods, Cultural Pluralism
Colvin, Richard Lee; Edwards, Virginia – OECD Publishing, 2018
This new publication sets forward the PISA framework for global competence developed by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which aligns closely with the definition developed by the Center for Global Education at Asia Society. Based on the Center's extensive experience supporting educators in integrating global…
Descriptors: Educational Methods, Global Approach, Competence, Adolescents
Reilly, Mary Ann; Gangi, Jane M.; Cohen, Rob – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
This book is a wonderful blending of methodologies. This juxtaposition of art and literature serves as an instrument for teachers to inspire their students to create, critique, compare and predict, all higher-level intellectual behaviors, while composing across symbol systems. The work contains detailed classroom transcripts of strategies that…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Sociocultural Patterns, Current Events, Writing Workshops
Willinsky, John – Education Canada, 2005
In this article, the author provides ways in which educators may start teaching globalism and globalization to their students. The author suggests that there are many opportunities to introduce students to the humane and encouraging aspects of a civil society by attending closely to current events that speak, with light and hope, to the changing…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Global Approach, World Affairs, Persuasive Discourse
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Dressel, Paula – Teaching Sociology, 1990
Outlines a strategy for using popular films in a sociology course to demonstrate the international nature of selected domestic social problems. Details two films, "El Norte" and "Cry Freedom," in terms of their storyline, preparatory lecture materials, sociological issues, students' reactions, and practical matters of use. (DB)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Current Events, Films, Global Approach
Wegner, Gregory P. – 1991
Teacher education programs of U.S. universities hold great potential for promoting new ways of thinking about the formation of a united Germany and its future role in Europe. These programs are important because they influence teacher candidates as to how they will teach about the New Europe. Three recommendations are offered to expand the…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Course Content, Current Events, Curriculum Development
Coulter, Andrea M.; And Others – 1988
This document is a compilation of classroom aids for teachers using statistical data appearing in World Eagle publications. Six teachers and the editors of World Eagle supplied specific examples of materials generated for classroom drills, tests, and assignments. Classroom assignments and documents are designed to teach statistical information…
Descriptors: Current Events, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
Gaunt, Philip – 1990
Recent historical events have made it increasingly important to strengthen the study of Western Europe in U.S. schools. With full integration of the European Community after 1992, with the unification of the two Germanys, and with the newly democratic states of the old Soviet bloc seeking some form of association with the European Economic…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Current Events, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
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Crooker, Richard A. – Social Education, 1990
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)
Descriptors: Current Events, Geography Instruction, Global Approach, Illegal Drug Use
Angry, Raymond – 1992
This practicum aimed to improve global awareness among middle school students. One specific goal was to increase the students' concept of the world and their global perspective. A second goal was to increase the students' geographic knowledge, enabling them to locate sites of current world events and affairs on a map or globe. Students were taught…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Current Events, Geography Instruction, Global Approach
Johnson, Jeffrey R. – 1990
In spring 1989, the United States watched intently as televised reports relayed the events unfolding in Beijing's (China) Tiananmen Square. This concern for a people whose culture and political institutions are significantly different reflects a continuing and compelling interest in China. Although historians and journalists in the United States…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese Culture, Comparative Education
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