Educating for Global Citizenship
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How long will we ignore the vision education can provide us to sustain peace and prosperity on Earth? Various themes of global concern offer good reasons for us to develop awareness, resources, and practical initiatives for new learning.
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Latest Activity: Oct 18
Developing awareness of blindspots in our eduational visions
Hopefully, this group will provide a place for us to discuss ideas and initiatives based on the integrated themes of an education for global citizenship, which have been derived initially from Noddings' work:
1) Preserving the Earth and its peoples through "placed-based" education
2) Developing global citizenship through civic education in local schools and communities
3) Building workable peace among people in conflict by integrating conflict resolution into our curricula.
4) Bridging gender, racial, and other social divides through education which connects people and allows human solidarity to replace the ignorance we have about one another
5) Similar to 4) above, bridging the divides of conflicting nationalisms by incorporating international studies and personal connections into social education
6) Resolving ideological, often warring conflicts between peoples of different religious convictions through publicly teaching the fundamental value of religious toleration in a world of plural beliefs.
This list is merely a first offering; it doesn't include other important themes that might be included; please contribute what makes you curious and matters to you.
This group, like any other place at Fireside Learning, is intended to allow each of us to grow together with new learning. Authentically engaging one another with our questions, insights, and concerns is vital to that learning. This is no place to be timid or hardnosed, but to be respectful of one another's uniqueness.
Discussion Forum
a test of the new activity feed 12 Replies
So glad Laura's in an experimental mode. I sense new, cool, and handy Web applications are on the Fireside Learning horizon. So keep alert folks!
Tagged: test
Started by Skip Zilla. Last reply by Ian Carmichael Dec. 6, 2008.
The Solutions Are Waiting 10 Replies
Worldchanging.org praises a new animated video about alternative energy options as a "brilliant example of citizen media [that] is just one example of a handful of new tools helping to create a bas...
Tagged: ready_solutions, webtool, animation, climate_change
Started by Skip Zilla. Last reply by Skip Zilla Nov. 23, 2008.
Toward Society 3.0
Society 3 0 View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: futures moravec)
Tagged: now, future, society, development, human_capital
Started by Skip Zilla Nov. 11, 2008.
Using maps to guide involvement and global citizenship
I've posted maps in this forum before, to illustrate the relationship between poorly performing schools and poverty in Chicago. I have begun to add new maps at http://tutormentor.blogspot.com and h...
Started by Daniel Bassill Aug. 10, 2008.
Tom Friedman's "Hot, Flat, and Crowded" 3 Replies
Thomas L. Friedman's soon to be published Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America tells the forward-looking, environment/energy story that has already b...
Tagged: intelligent_adaptation, new_learning, educational_challenge, energy-climate_era
Started by Skip Zilla. Last reply by Skip Zilla Aug. 10, 2008.
The Habitable Planet
Annenberg Media's The Habitable Planet is a free, online, multimedia course for high school teachers and adult learners interested in studying environmental science. The Web site provides access to...
Tagged: free, environmental_science, online_course
Started by Skip Zilla Aug. 3, 2008.
the girl effect (video)
Tagged: development, poverty, girls, worldchanging, economics
Started by Skip Zilla Aug. 2, 2008.
Green for All
Van Jones has emerged as a national environmental leader, calling for green economic development in urban America. Here's a link to the podcast (with transcript) of Tavis Smiley's conversation with...
Tagged: Tavis_Smiley, PBS, conversation, Van_Jones, evironmental_leadership
Started by Skip Zilla Jul. 17, 2008.
the hidden costs of war 1 Reply
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world i...
Started by Skip Zilla. Last reply by Ed Jones Jul. 8, 2008.
the science and curricular implications of melting ice
A CNN.com report, North Pole could be ice-free this summer, scientists say, states: "The North Pole may be briefly ice-free by September as global warming melts away Arctic sea ice, according to sc...
Tagged: change, environment, curricula, science
Started by Skip Zilla Jun. 27, 2008.
Stephanie Pace Marshall's book, The Power to Transform--let's talk about it.... 7 Replies
In addition to the other book discussion that's going on, I think it'd be great to get a small group talking about The Power to Transform. I'm pretty certain that Mike and Skip would find it to be ...
Tagged: marshall, the+power+to+transform
Started by Connie Weber. Last reply by Connie Weber May. 26, 2008.
the crippling effect racism has on us personally and socially 11 Replies
This posting is aimed at accumulating replies to it which can help us better understand how racism plays a major, yet often unacknowledged part in our lives and in how the world works as a result. ...
Tagged: personal, racism, social, crippling+effect
Started by Skip Zilla. Last reply by ddeubel Apr. 1, 2008.
toward wiser democracies that work for all 3 Replies
The theme of this posting and of the replies it seeks to prompt is adapted from the over decade-long work of Tom Atlee. Tom's website, Democracy Innovations, introduces the aim of working toward wi...
Tagged: democracy, 21st-century, opportunities, co-intelligence
Started by Skip Zilla. Last reply by Skip Zilla Feb. 26, 2008.
gender inequities in our classrooms and in our societies 2 Replies
The theme of this post and of a hopeful main thread of replies is "gender inequities in our classrooms and in our societies." The first two replies will be separate leads for discussion about gende...
Tagged: gender, classrooms, societies, inequities
Started by Skip Zilla. Last reply by Skip Zilla Feb. 23, 2008.
the effects of war on those caught up in its madness 1 Reply
This posting is aimed at accumulating in replies to it, those resources which might be used in a lesson on the effects of war on those caught up in it. It is not only innocent civilian non-combatan...
Started by Skip Zilla. Last reply by Skip Zilla Feb. 22, 2008.
Connie's initial Forum posting spurred the formation of this group.
This group follows upon Connie's Forum discussion posting about education for global awareness.
Tagged: education, awareness, forum, discussion, global
Started by Skip Zilla Feb. 22, 2008.
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Comment by Connie Weber on October 16, 2008 at 12:37pm
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