Global Awareness
Developing Children’s Social and Cultural Understandings: The Moroccan Medina
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 01/10/2013 - 4:23pmThrough modeling a narrative approach to studying the Moroccan Medina and examining research on engaging pedagogies, participants will understand how intercultural and global understandings are demonstrated through problem-solving experiences.
Teaching global awareness: learning strategies that work
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 01/10/2013 - 4:23pmThe purpose of this hands-on session is to discuss learning strategies that help students become active participants in their own learning in the classroom and beyond.
Teaching Global Understanding at the Elementary age Through Cultural Immersion
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 01/10/2013 - 4:23pmIn the Elementary classroom it is important to immerse the children in the global community. I will show how to teach the importance of respect and understanding for other cultures.
Building Global Citizens - International Service Learning
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 01/10/2013 - 4:23pmThis International Studies Programme combines character education and service learning in a unique global classroom. West Island College Students travel around the world learning about sustainable development through service learning.
Understanding Ethiopia: A Pilot Study abroad Project
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 01/10/2013 - 4:23pmIn 2012, 15 students spent two months on a State Department-funded study abroad project in Ethiopia learning about history, cultures and language. The presentation will describe this experience with educators.
Linking the World/Teaching Global History as Mystery
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 01/10/2013 - 4:23pmGlobal history taught as a basic building block promoting tolerance, understanding, & diminishing ethnocentrism, among nations and cultures by presenting original sources and issues as 'mysteries' solved through shared discovery.
Malagasy Perspectives about NonEuropean Immigrants
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 01/10/2013 - 4:23pmThis study explores the experiential perceptions of a Malagasy immigrant and the challenges he and others, e.g., North Africans, faced as nonEuropean immigrants in French schooling systems.
Perceptions of Geography Students on Global Issues
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 01/10/2013 - 4:23pmSurvey given to university geography students at Western Kentucky University (US) and Minia University (Egypt)showed significant differences in student perceptions of global issues in five categories.
