This study used an ethnographic approach to analyze data on the teacher as self in the high school social studies classroom, examining patterns in social studies pedagogy and how the teacher's self is manifested in global education classrooms. Data came from observation reports, interviews, and document analyses at three high schools. Teacher…

These two curriculum units were developed as a result of study in Mexico and Guatemala during the Fulbright Hays Summer Seminar Abroad Program, 2000. The units are designed for use in an upper-level high school Spanish class. They are intended to be taught in Spanish, and the supplementary materials (with a few exceptions) are written in Spanish.…

When the Berlin Wall (East Germany) came down, it symbolically foretold the end of the Soviet Union domination of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. This resource guide examines the process toward democratization occurring in those regions. The guide updates the available classroom material on the democratic process. It is divided into three…

This document outlines a strategic plan to achieve the central goal of promoting a global consciousness in the Coast Community College District (California) that. Central objectives of the plan are as follows: (1) to develop an educational environment which encourages college faculty, staff, and students to attain the global competence necessary…

Describes several lessons where teachers are using mathematics to develop students' knowledge of and appreciation for world cultures. The term used to express the relationship between mathematics and culture is "ethnomathematics." Lessons illustrated include, for example, comparison of Egyptian hieroglyphic numerals with Chinese rod numerals and…

A resource for the teaching of the history and causes of climate change. Discusses evidence of climate change from the Viking era, early ice ages, the most recent ice age, natural causes of climate change, human-made causes of climate change, projections of global warming, and unequal warming. (LZ)

Many high school students are aware of the efforts of the United Nations to maintain peace. This activity is intended to make students aware of the larger mandate of the UN by focusing on one of the issues of increasing concern, the environment, and the solutions proposed by the UN. (LZ)

Presents various definitions of culture and contemplates how much a culture can really be shared by those not born into it. Asserts that, in international education, certain concerns must be raised, including: (1) a truly shared meaning depends upon a shared culture; (2) language plays a key role in understanding and developing a culture; and (3)…

Expatriates from India now living in the U.S. seek to establish a business school in their homeland that will hold its own in the global marketplace. (JM)

Explains the importance of global education and discusses methods of incorporating activities into the science curriculum to lead to global understanding. Presents an example entitled "It's Everyone's Sea: Or Is It?" First published in 1990. (YDS)

Presents a genealogy/migration assignment that encourages students to recognize how their individual histories fit into the global world. Expounds that the students traced the migration of their ancestors from the Eastern Hemisphere to the United States and then within the United States to the Appalachian region. (CMK)

This article uses the example of the recent (ill-fated) experiment in the creation of a global education product--the UKeU--to explore how the concept of community in learning changes in this context. It uses a framework borrowed from the literature on changes in the welfare state to explain how the new economies of on line education distort the…

This study explores the exegesis of two beginning teachers in a teacher preparation and development, Web-based distance learning course in global/multicultural pedagogy. Before illustrating their experiences prior, during, and after the Web-based distance learning course, the author begins with a brief examination of the literature in distance…

From their first recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, students are taught that the most important unit of social analysis is the nation-state and that people on this side of the border constitute "us," whereas those on the other side of the line are "them." By the time students enter a global studies class as high school…

The essays in this volume have been selected from papers presented at the 13th World Conference of the World Council for Curriculum and Instruction. The first WCCI Conference held in England in 1974, was followed by conferences in Turkey, the Philippines, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, Egypt, India, Thailand, Spain, Australia, and again, the…