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Educating Global Citizens in Colleges and Universities: Challenges and Opportunities book cover

1st Edition

Educating Global Citizens in Colleges and Universities Challenges and Opportunities

By Peter N. Stearns Copyright 2009
240 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge
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This book provides distinctive analysis of the full range of expressions in global education at a crucial time, when international competition rises, tensions with American foreign policy both complicate and motivate new activity, and a variety of innovations are taking shape. Citing best practices at a variety of institutions, the book provides practical coverage and guidance in the major... Read more

@TOC:Chapter 1: Introduction: Why Global Education?

Chapter 2: Contexts

Chapter 3: Curriculum: General education and beyond

Chapter 4:Study Abroad

Chapter 5: International Operations:

Chapter 6: Organizing the Global Programs

Chapter 7: Assessing Global Citizenship

Biography

Peter N. Stearns is Provost and Professor of History at George Mason University. He has taught at Harvard, the University of Chicago, Rutgers, and Carnegie Mellon. He has published widely and, under his leadership, George Mason was awarded the 2006 Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in International Education.

"Educating Global Citizens in Colleges and Universities is timely given the ever-growing complexities of our world…its contents set forth thought provoking ideas to continue conversations at a local level. Higher education administrators will benefit from Stearns’s practical advice."--Jennifer D. Shea, Education Review, December 2009

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