Four pitfalls in using case studies to teach global issues are described. These include, bias in choosing cases, overgeneralization from the case, finding interesting cases, and letting the case become an end in itself. (DE)

This report offers an agenda for developing educational approaches that provide a global perspective as a way of enhancing students' abilities to understand and cope with issues of social change. The report is divided into three parts. Part 1 argues for the necessity of a global perspective, with focus placed on the educational needs created by:…

This draft outline presents and organizes for teachers one of the fundamental concepts in war/peace studies: interdependence. As the definitional statement makes clear, interdependence involves learning to look at the world as a single system, and to identify and analyze its various subsystems. Part of the rationale for considering interdependence…

This book is based on an extensive study conducted by the Foreign Policy Association for the United States Office of Education on needs and priorities in international education. To give students adequate preparation for today's world of constant and rapid change the schools must help them gain a global perspective of the world as a single system.…