Understanding Secondary School Capacity to Educate Globally: A Case Study of School Leaders in Houston, Texas

• In Event: Poster Session 4
  In Poster Session: Issues in Education and Leadership

Abstract

In recent years more and more attention has been paid to the need to educate American students globally. Education professionals, business leaders and politicians realize that schools and school leaders must identify multiple opportunities for students to interact with and experience a global society or in other words to undertake “internationalization”. However, there is little consensus on how this should be undertaken, or more critically, what is the current status of and capacity for internationalization. This mixed-method case study examines, in one large city, this question, with a focus on school leaders as gate-keepers to reform. The results indicate that global education remains primarily important for wealthy schools serving more elite students.

Author

• Debora Hinderliter Ortloff, University of Houston - Clear Lake