Research on Teaching Global Issues: Pedagogy for Global Citizenship Education hc Myers John P.
Research on Teaching Global Issues: Pedagogy for Global Citizenship Education hc Myers John P. This edited book is the first full-length volume exclusively devoted to new research on the challenges…
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Research on Teaching Global Issues: Pedagogy for Global Citizenship Education hc Myers John P.
This edited book is the first full-length volume exclusively devoted to new research on the challenges and practices of teaching global issues. Many young people today are passionate about issues such as climate change, world poverty, and human rights but have few opportunities in schools to study such issues in depth. It addresses the ways that schools can and do address young people's interest and activism in contemporary global issues facing the world.
The central thesis is that global issues are an essential feature of democracy and social action in a world caught in the This book draws on new research to provide a deeper understanding and examples of how global issues are taught in schools.The book is organized in two sections: (1) contexts and policies in which global issues are taught and learned; and (2) case studies of teaching and learning global issues in schools.