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Empowering Global Citizens: A World Course
Place of publication | Year of publication | Collation: 
South Carolina | 2016 | 422 p.
ISBN/ISSN: 
ISBN 9781533594549
Author: 
Fernando M. Reimers; Vidur Chopra; Connie K. Chung; Julia Higdon; E. B. O'Donnell
Region: 
Global

The world is changing rapidly and shcools must evolve to prepare young people to invent the future. Reinventing education requires thinking anew about how to help students develop competencies that will empower them as architects of their own lives and contributing members of their communities. 

Drawing on a synthesis of research and practice in global citizenship education, this book presents The World Course - a rigorous and coherent curriculum to foster student agency, empathy, and deep knowledge and skills to recognize the biggest global challenges and opportunities of our times, and to advance sustainability, human rights, and peace. Integrating current thinking on twenty-first-centry competencies and deeper learning, and deploying pedagogies that cultivate student responsibility, imagination, and creativity, such as project-based learning and design thinking, this book is a blueprint to reinvent education to empower global citizens.

Resource Type: 
Curriculum, teaching-learning materials and guides
Theme: 
Civic / Citizenship / Democracy
Human rights
Peace / Culture of peace
Sustainable development / sustainability
Level of education: 
Primary education
Secondary education
Keywords: 
global citizenship education
teaching materials