Becoming Global Citizens without Leaving Home

Autor/in	DiGeorgio-Lutz, JoAnn
Titel	Becoming Global Citizens without Leaving Home
Quelle	In: Teaching in Higher Education, 15 (2010) 6, S.715-720 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-2517
Schlagwörter	Global Education; International Relations; Foreign Countries; Social Values; Learning Experience; Foreign Policy; Global Approach; Student Motivation; Citizenship Education; Social Studies; Consciousness Raising; Arabs; College Students; Cultural Awareness + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Globales Lernen; Internationale Beziehungen; Ausland; Sozialer Wert; Lernerfahrung; Außenpolitik; Globales Denken; Schulische Motivation; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Gemeinschaftskunde; Bewusstseinsbildung; Arab; Araber; Collegestudent; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität
Abstract	As an associate professor of International Relations with a specialization in Middle East Politics at a rural, public university in east Texas, the author's most challenging role as an educator focuses on how she can motivate her students to become global citizens. That is, how can she enrich their semester-long learning experience so that they can become "globally competent learners," which will subsequently guide them to become global citizens long after the semester has ended. This question is important because her students are not able to participate in the more powerful person-to-person international exchange of cultural values. Instead, their global experience has to begin and end entirely in the classroom. In this article, the author discusses how to incorporate globally competent learning in classes in any given semester and how to globalize classes without simply adding textbooks with a global perspective. She describes how she challenged her students in a Middle East foreign policy class to experience the world beyond the classroom by becoming "citizens" of other countries. The global transformation was done through their participation in the National Council on US-Arab Relations' Model Arab League (MAL), a three day, inter-university simulation held every spring semester in which students represent member governments of the 22 nations that comprise the Arab League. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10