Globalization and Education: A community resource
Globalization and Education is an internet resource aimed at providing diverse perspectives on ways in which education is being shaped by global processes.
Developed by a collective of research students at the University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign, this website provides space for everyone to dialogue pertinent issues relating to globalization and education. Along with debates about globalization, this website also presents teaching and research resources that can be incorporated by teachers in their curriculum. Through our conversations we hope to build the critical, creative commons--a civic space developed to resist destructive consequences of globalization and to engage with its progressive potential.
NEW TO THIS SITE: Students Projects
The program in Global Studies in Education is pleased to post here student projects on how issues of globalization are steering shifts in educational policies around the world.
State Teacher Policy Yearbook 2007
The latest, issued of the State Teacher Policy Yearbook by the National Council on Teacher Quality, a Washington-based advocacy group.
An article about the report at the Chronicle of Higher Education says that "the report indicates that in most states, teachers, unlike members of many other professions, are not required to receive annual performance reviews. Also, states are failing to hold schools of education accountable on such measures as the quality of their graduates".
Some of the findings in the report are:
- State policies are remarkably inflexible and outdated.
- States are not paying enough attention to who goes into teaching.
- States do not appropriately oversee teacher preparation programs.
- States use false proxies as measures of teacher quality.
- States do not appreciate the dual nature of licensing tests.
- States continue to neglect content preparation for teachers
- States do not ensure that special education teachers are well-prepared to teach students with disabilities.
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The Choices Program
The Choices for the 21st Century Education Program is a national education initiative based at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.
The program seeks to empower young people with the skills, knowledge, and participatory habits to be engaged citizens who are capable of addressing international issues through thoughtful public discourse and informed decision making. The program has designed a number of educational resources, including a curriculula on a variety of topics.
Choices teaching resources incorporate the latest scholarship to make connections between historical events and contemporary international issues. Choices teaching materials are used in a range of courses including U.S. history, world history, global studies, and government.
Resources: *Curriculum Units * Teaching with the News * Supplemental Materials *Scholars Online *Ballots & Surveys *Teaching Tools
Concern Worldwide
Concern Worldwide is an international humanitarian
organization committed to the relief,
assistance and advancement of the poorest
people in the least developed countries of the world. Founded in Ireland in 1968,
Concern Worldwide works in 30 countries throughout Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, providing emergency
relief and long-term assistance in the areas of education, health, livelihoods (including agricultural training and
microfinance) and HIV/AIDS.The project provides free educational modules on seven different topics. Order free mocules at http://www.concernusa.org/globalproject/teachingresources/
Education Policy Analysis_ Focus on Higher Education - 2005-2006 Edition
The latest publication of "Educational Policy Analysis" by the OECD, this time is focus on higher education. Improving the quality, equity and efficiency of education systems is a key policy objective in OECD countries. No economy in the world can afford to neglect education. Major reforms are under way as countries strive to make lifelong learning opportunities available to all. Education Policy Analysis 2005-2006 provides a window on this rich international experience with chapters on:
- achieving quality, equity and efficiency in higher education;
- policy directions for the growing international market in higher education;
- valuing teachers: how to meet aspirations and enhance motivation;
- new tools for teaching and learning: formative assessment to help all students succeed;
- gender differences and mathematics: performance, attitudes and motivation.
Table of contents
- Chapter 1. Higher Education: Quality, Equity and Efficiency
- Chapter 2. The Internationalisation of Higher Education: Towards an Explicit Policy
- Chapter 3. The Teaching Workforce: Meeting Aspirations and Enhancing Motivation
- Chapter 4. Improving Learning through Formative Assessment
- Chapter 5. Gender Differences in Student Engagement with Mathematics
Demand-Sensitive Schooling?: Evidence and Issues : OECD
The latest volume of OECD's Schooling for Tomorrow series, published last October 2006. It examines and clarifies different aspects of the demand concept. And, it brings forward international evidence to reveal attitudes and expectations. The evidence reviewed is from Austria, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Denmark, England, Finland, Hun gary, Japan, Poland, Spain, and the United States.
This book will be of particular interest to those involved in the reform and future of education, including policy makers, school leaders and parents.It closely complements the recently-published Schooling for Tomorrow volume, Personalising Education .
Complete Executive Summary
The Virtual University Models and messages: Unesco
The Virtual University Models and messages: Lessons from case studies : Lessons from case studies is a report released by UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) wich examines models and messages for the virtual university, "Information and Communication Technology (ICT) offers the university both an opportunity and a challenge. By using ICT the university can provide increased flexibility to students while reaching students beyond the usual catchment area. However, institutions need to develop and apply appropriate policies, and to plan and manage effectively for a new mode of teaching and learning. The virtual university warrants examination as it represents an important development in the use of ICT to increase flexibility and extend provision of higher education in both developed and developing countries."
The State of the World's Children 2007: Unicef
The State of the World's Children 2007 examines the discrimination and disempowerment women face throughout their lives - and outlines what must be done to eliminate gender discrimination and empower women and girls. It looks at the status of women today, discusses how gender equality will move all the Millennium Development Goals forward, and shows how investment in women's rights will ultimately produce a double dividend: advancing the rights of both women and children.
Download the full report [ PDF, 1.9 MB ]
Download the executive summary [ PDF, 697 KB ]
Feminized migration in East and Southeast Asia: policies, actions and empowerment:
Keiko Yamanaka and Nicola Piper
This paper discusses the causes, processes and consequences of feminised migration in the context of East and South East Asia's expanding global capitalism, increasing feminisation of the economic means for family survival, and rising civil activism both in local communities and transnationally. The authors' analysis of labour migration takes an intra-regional, focusing primarily on the policies of destination countries and responses by grassroots forces there, as they decisively determine migrants' welfare and labour.
http://www.eldis.org/cf/rdr/rdr.cfm?doc=DOC21687
Upcoming Conference: Globalization, Empire, and Imperialism in Historical Perspective
 In recent years globalization has received a huge amount of attention. The media are replete these days with references to empire, imperialism, neo-imperialism, etc. If much of the work on these topics is vaporous-"globaloney," as Paul Krugman (recycling a phrase originating with Clare Booth Luce) puts it- an increasing proportion is
is sufficiently serious so as to command the interest of scholars.
Nonetheless, must be pointed out that even the best of the recent work often suffers from a lack of historical perspective. Clearly, the time seems right for systematic scholarly examination and analysis of these concepts qua concepts and of specific historical episodes/manifestations of globalization, empire, and imperialism across space and time.
Featured Resource:Information Beyond Modernity: Globalization and Difference
Professor Arturo Escobar presented "Information Beyond Modernity: Globalization and Difference" on March 3, 2006. Professor Escobar is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Professor Escobar delivered his remarks during the opening session of the Informatics Goes Global: Methods at a Crossroads conference which was held March 3-4, 2006 at IUB.
Listen to the Entire Lecture
Featured Resource:Re-thinking Globalization: Teaching for justice in an unjust world
[Edited by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson]
This publication from Rethinking Schools helps teachers raise critical issues with students in grades 4 - 12 about the increasing globalization of the world's economies and infrastructures, and the many different impacts this trend has on our planet and those who live here.
Movimento Dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (Landless Workers Movement: MST) :
 A land reform movement that emerged in the mid-1980s, MST has helped settle more than 250, 000 families on fifteen million acres of formerly idle land in almost every state of Brazil and has reduced malnutrition and joblessness and increased literacy in its settlements.
Conference : Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: The Dark Side of Global and Regional Migration
Developing Countries and the Dollar: By C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
The authors consider the nature of developing country capital flows and analyse why investing in US dollar assets has become such a favoured use for financial resources that could be used instead to increase economic growth in the developing world.
Interdisciplinary Conference on Women & Migration
St. Thomas University Miami, Florida, 10 December 2005
On this December 10th - marked around the world as "Human Rights Day" - St. Thomas University wishes to celebrate the lives and stories of women who have come to the United States from somewhere else, to provide a forum for remembrance and discussion, promote positive policy development, and where possible to "move forward" toward action that will alleviate suffering and facilitate healing.
CIAO presents a wealth of information
about theory as well as current research in the area of international affairs. The web site has a wide range of resources that include working papers, occasional essays, conference proceedings, policy briefs and teaching materials.
When: November 16, 2005 @ 12 pm ET
Grades: 8-12
Topics: Social Studies, Geography, Current Events.
Cost to participate as a view-only school: FREE
What's it like to be an exchange student from the Islamic World, living in the United States with an American host family and attending high school? In a rare opportunity, students from around the United States will be able to ask questions and share ideas with exchange students from the Middle East and South Asia through the videoconference, "Connecting Voices."
In celebration of International Education Week, AYUSA International, in partnership with the International Education and Resource Network (IEARN) and the Global Nomads Group, will bring together high school exchange students from Gaza, Jordan and Pakistan with high school students from around the United States. This video conference will provide students with the opportunity to engage with youth from the Middle East and South Asia and see the impact of cross-cultural learning firsthand.
   Part of the PBS intereactive, this website is a rich resource for secondary school teachers. These sources allow techers to illustrate parallels between current and historical events and facilitate critical thinking based on a global context.
Sarah Ensor's feature article looks at AIDS and structural inequalities. " Aids, like every other catastrophe in human history, has its roots deep in the structures of the society that gave birth to it and for these we have to look at the economic policies of the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) imposed by the world's richest countries on the rest of the world".
This paper looks into the causes for Zimbabwe's "brain drain". Produced by Southern African Migration Project (2005),
the paper is based on a survey of final-year college
and university students in Zimbabwe. (This article was previously published on http://www.eldis.ids.ac.uk/index.htm)
Globalisation and Education:
What do the trade, investment and migration literatures tell us?
Dirk Willem te Velde's paper discusses the central role education plays in shaping and responding to globalization.
http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/working_papers/wp254.pdf
"The university will be a very different place in another decade or two, and what it will look like depends to a large degree on what version of globalization wins out." William Tabb talks about the Market mantra, education reforms and the responsibility of educators.
http://www.psc-cuny.org/jcglobalization.htm
The World Trade Organisation and Post-Secondary Education: Implications for the Public System . An illuminating piece by Marjorie Cohen on the trade in Education.
http://bctf.ca/social/globalization/CohenPaper.html
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