Annotated Bibliography
By Serge Andre
Date: 7/7/2015
Global and multicultural education are two concepts that parallel each other based on theory. These ideas focus on the fact that society has undergone an awakening determining that education is a right and not a privilege. Education as right means it is available for all people despite income, social class, gender, and physical or mental impairments. The idea of education has also evolved beyond how it is provided, it has changed to also include how education is presented. Education is presented with the belief that all people possesses a commonality and must be able to function in a competing environment with mutual respect. Education is emphasizes the strength and humanity
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(1991). Global education: From thought to action ; yearbook of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Alexandria, Va.: ASCD.
Tye article on global education, allows the reader to understand global education by providing an analysis of what global education is and how it can be useful. The author defines global education and provides clear examples on how it appears in schools. One major aspect of his analysis is that he demonstrate the appearance of a global education and inherent problems that exist in schools without the global perspective. The author states that it is important that global education creates people more socially aware capable of interacting with members outside of their community creating a cross cultural discourse.
Merryfield, M. (1995, July 1). Teacher Education in Global and International Education. Retrieved July 7, 2015, from http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED384601
Merryfield examines what is global and international education. She states that educators most work to promote cultural pluralism, interconnections, and international competition. This article is important because it discusses how global education should be presented in a content specific manner in order to maximize its
The integration of global competencies into CTE programs of study is a natural one. CTE students are learning valuable skills related to the program’s industry; and students in the ISSN network, as discussed earlier, are using deeper analytic skills to research and address issues of global significance. Research in both areas demonstrates that engagement in real‐world learning on issues of global significance leads to persistence and higher achievement. To combine CTE with the methods and strategies of a globally focused education is a powerful way to engage, motivate, and ultimately ensure that students graduate from high school with the skills needed to succeed in the interconnected environment in which they will be living and working. Increasing numbers of careers are requiring global competency, facility with world languages and cultures, and the ability to work in global teams. At a fundamental level, CTE’s role is to prepare students for successful careers, and quality CTE programs should provide opportunities for students to learn and apply global competencies in order for students to successfully participate in the Am Rapid economic, technological, and social changes are
Regional trade agreements (RTAs) are not new, however their significance in worldwide commercial concerns and governmental issues has become exponentially in the previous two decades. In the meantime, RTAs have ended up progressively dubious as their number, degree, and cross-cutting enrollments get to be complex to the point that numerous apprehension they will undermine the World Trade Organization's multilateral exchanging framework. Running from the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation gathering to the European Union to the North American Free Trade Agreement, RTAs have similarly far reaching purposes, from enhancing business access to expanding clout in global arrangements. Handling this intricacy and perplexity head on, this book gives a quite required adviser for RTAs. Setting current territorial assertions in their investment, political, and verifiable connection, David A. Lynch depicts and analyzes basically every noteworthy RTA, area by locale. He unmistakably demonstrates their many-sided internal workings, their networks of joint effort and clash, and their essential objectives and adequacy. Lynch's profoundly proficient study connects the ideological partitions in academic and open civil argument, including economists' accentuations on businesses and productivity versus burrowing little creature globalization activists' worries over disparity and social ills. By building a center ground between micro and macro examination and
In “How to Raise a Global Kid”, by Lisa Miller, Miller claims the task facing American kids who must share a global understanding in order to strive in today’s worldwide economies. The right time for kids to study another language has been a question since the world started thinking about worldwide opportunity, especially in nations whose main language is not English. Raising a global kid is about helping children be well-educated and efficient globally. Global kids have a better ability to understand us than we have of understanding them and of course there are probably more Chinese living in the United States than Americans are living in China. Lisa Miller believes there are three areas in helping children successfully: learning a foreign language, embrace world music, and learn different cultures to be able to live in a global economy.
The week when working on the annotative bibliography I found it easy to identity the strongest research materials that I had collected over the past 7 weeks and use those resources first. I believe all of us had a few journals and/or books that really provided a wealth of information on our topics, which were the start of our annotative bibliography work.
are located, because we have classes about world geography and Oman geography at the same time. From this experience that I had, makes me I agree with author to enhance students global knowledge. The author idea was to change education system in high schools to be more open about other cultures than just focus in America culture.
Internationalization, the term and its associated processes and practices, is a phenomenon clouded with complexity, nested within globalization, increased global migration, and capitalism. Our understandings of internationalization within an educational context often focus on the story of the West. Whether opening the doors of the academy to students from around the world or creating pathways for students and faculty to travel to different countries, internationalization (from the perspective of the West) has been viewed as a means of ensuring global
It is sure that even most schools in a country desire change toward global education. If governmental stakeholders, such as many governmental departments that are devoted to globalization educational transformation, do not take action, no change will take place. Within schools, there are departments concerned with curriculum and other areas of the school hierarchy that perform assessments and do teacher training, and ICT. These stakeholders are all essential to transform ideas into policy. It will make education more available, more equitable and successful for millions of children across the shrinking globe.
In modern times U.S. colleges and universities have more international students than ever before. The number of international students in the classrooms has increased dramatically the past couple of years. When I started classes here in US, I feel as if we, the foreign students were just more students. I saw it as people coming from different places but not different thoughts. After I started classes I realized that international students think in another way. We see things with different perspectives because we come from other cultures. We have a perspective based on our experience out of the country. Which means, we get to different conclusions. We have been raised different than people here in U.S.A. They were thought in another way, so we think different. I realized that, students from other countries can contribute a lot to a country. Not only economically, international students contribute culturally, as well with making improvements in institutions and education. They help by making the international relations of the country better. Outside the classroom, international students have an impact on more than just the education sector. They help supporting the economic activity, food, transportation, communication and more.
Global awareness and intercultural competence are some of the hottest buzz words in higher education right now. With the U.S. population becoming more diverse, and our economy increasingly interlinked with economic issues globally, government, business, and society at large are looking more and more to higher education to create the human capital necessary to continue U.S. preeminence around the globe (Duncan, 2011). The method of choice in higher education for teaching these competencies is through travel as a form of exposure to “the world”. This educational archetype is generally termed “study abroad”. The majority of existing research around learning through travel centers on the undergraduate study abroad experience (Lewin, 2009; VandeBerg, Paige, Lou, 2012). This is because study abroad is generally an undergraduate phenomena, and is much rarer at the graduate level. Graduate business education, particularly within MBA programs, is an exception.
Step one A form of research that led to the demonstration of competency and leadership in the field of global study is the study conducted to evaluate the importance of global competency and why it should taught especially in schools. The study was conducted by the partnership for 21 st century skills in the United States where voters were asked to give their opinion on what skills they considered to be important and needed to be developed. The research was conducted in the United States and its purpose was to assess the importance of global competency compared to other skills taught in schools. My role in the research was to conduct the survey and tally the results. After the research, I learnt that global competency is not only
The role educators, play in the development of global citizens is the values and attitudes they bring to the classroom as this relates to the component of human behaviour, teachers values, attitudes and beliefs can influence and benefits students own values, attitudes and beliefs (Marsh 2008). Teachers “Incorporate global and multicultural perspectives into their teaching, thereby engaging all students in their learning” (Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, 2009, p.8). In addition teachers maintain a safe and inclusive classroom in which learning is for all and students are treated with respect, regardless of their culture or
The paper explores the process of becoming a world class international student. In order to become a world class international student goal setting, community building, academic development and personal development is important. The paper explores the result of three articles from the research conducted by different scholars on the process and obstacles to become a world class international student. Ladd and Ruby (1999) suggests that Educators can assist global students with being effective at U.S. colleges by deciding, then disclosing to them, their favored learning styles. Such information can help school educators in modifying their instructing styles to the students' learning styles. Gonclaves and Trunk (2014) says that Maintenance and
There are many ways in which global education can be implemented in senior Study of Society, which promote student knowledge and understanding about the
“Developing global competence is a long-term undertaking and must begin at an early age, especially foreign language acquisition" (American Council on Education [ACE], 2002).
This material augments my understanding of cross cultural training and aligns with my worldview that globalization has not destroyed our innate-cultural differences. In addition, pedagogy approach is necessary in bridging the cultural gaps and at the same time promoting worldwide communication and trades.