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ent in global education
Offers a blueprint to prepare students to find meaning and relevance in a rapidly changing world, equipping them with the skills to invent the future
Brings together scholarly work and literature that supports practical approaches to empowering students as global citizens
Proposes a comprehensive framework for planning and implementing global education programs that combines the five core dimensions of lasting educational change: culture, psychology, profession, institutions and politics
Offers a rich framework integrating an extensive review of empirical literature on the practice of global education to help leaders manage the complexity of educational change to align instruction with today’s most urgent challenges
Easily navigates between the worlds of scholarship and practice, illustrating core theoretical ideas with concrete examples of curriculum and teacher developm
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This open access book addresses how to help students find purpose in a rapidly changing world. In a probing and visionary analysis of the field of global education Fernando Reimers explains how to lead the transformation of schools and school systems in order to more effectively prepare students to address today’s’ most urgent challenges and to invent a better future. Offering a comprehensive and multidimensional framework for designing and implementing a global education program that combines cultural, psychological, professional, institutional and political perspectives the book integrates an extensive body of empirical literature on the practice of global education. It discusses several global citizenship curricula that have been adopted by schools and school networks, and ties them into an approach to lead school change into the uncharted territory of the future. Given its scope, the book will help teachers, school and district leaders tackle the change management needed in order to introduce global education, and more generally increase the relevancy of education. In addition, the book offers a “bridge” for more productive collaboration and communication between those who lead the process of educational change, and those who study and theorize this important work.
At a time when the urgency of our shared global challenges calls for more understanding and collaboration and when the rapid transformation of societies requires that we help students develop a clear sense of relevancy and purpose, this book offers a way to pursue deep and sustainable change in instruction and school culture, so that students learn that nothing human is foreign and that they can find meaning in lives aligned with audacious purposes to make the world better.
Keywords
- 21st century skills
- global education
- multicultural education
- deeper learning
- immigrant students
- diversity and education
- teaching diverse students
- framework for global education
- global citizenship education
- global citizenship curriculum
- leading transformation of schools
- internationalization of education
- school reform
- school change
- school leadership
- open access
- learning and instruction
Authors and Affiliations
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Harvard Graduate School Of Education, Cambridge, USA
Fernando M. Reimers
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Educating Students to Improve the World
Authors: Fernando M. Reimers
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3887-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
License: CC BY
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-3886-5Published: 08 April 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-3887-2Published: 07 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2211-1921
Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 131
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Curriculum Studies, Educational Policy and Politics, Instructional Psychology, Education Policy, Sociology of Education