Rural students can understand global perspectives by developing pride as food providers who share "kinship of the soil" with the developing world. Important lessons include man's dependence on the land; philosophy of environmental protection; agricultural technology; political influence over soil use; and five factors controlling crop production.…

The Council on Learning's Education and the World View project is described as a carefully defined public project of two years' duration to encourage serious curricular reconsiderations in our schools and colleges in view of the new realities of the world. An undergraduate experience should expose students to other cultures. (MLW)

This essay is a call for world-systems analysis of education. It defines the central features of world-systems analysis, discusses the literature pertaining to the emergence and consolidation of a world economic system, points up some promising research by comparative educationists, and suggests some areas for future research. (Author/KC)

Using the Canadian experience as a reference point, this paper attempts to explain how and why the dynamics of political-economic domination work in international relations among higher educational institutions. The explanation stresses the material and structural limits on higher education's participation in the international flow of ideas.…

The need for citizen involvement in foreign policymaking is discussed. Two factors in the inability to perceive, interpret, and participate in international dimensions of our lives and institutions include: (l) the socialization process through which we learn about the world, and (2) perception of little opportunity for personal participation in…

Presents six lesson plans that illustrate thematic strands contained in "Expectations of Excellence: Curriculum Standards for Social Studies." Each plan also relates to the ninth strand of the standards, "Global Connections." The lesson plans cover a variety of subjects, grade levels, and instructional strategies. (MJP)

Summarizes various stakeholder surveys and factor analyses that attempt to delineate transferable skills, such as problem solving, communication, teamwork, and critical thinking. Points out that employer skill requirements may vary among countries and these differences may not always be cultural, but are related to different uses of terminology…

Distinguishes social capital from societal cohesion. Argues that education acts in different ways for each. Develops a distributional model showing the relationship between equality of educational outcomes and various measures of social cohesion. Discusses theories explaining country trends and variations in educational inequality and social…

Presents a literature and Web survey of materials related to library user instruction and information literacy. Highlights include higher education; school libraries; public and special libraries; information skills training in the workplace; the global environment; conferences; examples of model programs; international programs for information…

This article notes that the homogenizing effect of technology transfer is commonly felt to be responsible for cultural and educational convergence. The role of graduate study in international business administration in this process is considered, using a survey of graduate business administration students in Australia, Malaysia, and Singapore.…

A survey of 51 Australian university administrators and faculty investigated offerings in international business education at undergraduate and graduate levels, including foreign language requirements and agreements with overseas business schools. Results indicated that, while international trade and international business education were still…

Gopher and other early implementations of the virtual library are being superseded by the World Wide Web concept of "the global village library." Public libraries are implementing institutional Web pages, patron access to Internetwide e-mail, interagency programs, and Web training. Legislative issues and implications for the future are…

Provides examples of how to integrate e-mail into elementary and secondary school curriculum. Topics include international and cross-cultural exchanges; interdisciplinary projects; interviewing; career information; activism and service; effective questioning; and reading and critiquing literary manuscripts. (LRW)

Discusses the state of the Internet. Highlights include the magnitude of the infrastructure, costs, its increasing pace, constraints in international links, provision of network capacity to homes and small businesses, cable television modems, political and cultural problems, the digital library concept, search engines, the failure of personal…

Examines how the strategies of cooperative learning complement inquiry into major global issues. Points out that most of the basic skills identified by Steven Lamy for a global education program are inquiry skills and that cooperative inquiry best serves these objectives. Maintains that cooperative learning empowers students and creates a…