Global Education Had I been asked to define global education, even just a few years ago, I would have said it was students learning about the world. I would have thought that I was doing it with my 7th graders because our curriculum is world geography. And I would have been wrong. Global education is so much more than learning about other countries. It's about learning that there are different perspectives to an issue. It's about learning that there is no single story that explains a country or culture. It's about the realization that learning about a topic is nothing without taking action on it.
This global education guide... The global education guide is to help geography and culture teachers (especially the teachers teaching social science as an "orphan subject") to see how our role has changed. We don't have all the answers for students. The world is too complex for us to believe that we are an expert on even a small portion of it. We live in a world where information grows faster than we can process. Students can Google answers to simple questions, which is why we can't teach in simple questions. The role of teachers is to help students develop complex questions about the world, and help them see that there is never one simple answer to that question. The issues that Americans see one way, (deforestation, overpopulation, religion etc.) are not always seen that way in other parts of the world. Helping students understand AND appreciate different points of view is vital to students today.