A Holistic Approach to Global Education: Case Studies of Schools in Australia, Singapore, and the United States

• In Event: 26.058 - Global Culture, Diversity, and Educational Understanding

Abstract

The objective of this study is to examine how three select schools in Australia, Singapore, and the United States have implemented a whole-school approach to purposefully cultivate critical, creative, and ethical global capacities. While global education has been studied as a singular subject or integrated into existing subjects such as Social Studies, this study compares schools that have adopted a whole-school approach to global education. That is, school leaders and teachers aim to embed global education in the culture of schooling and infuse it into school programmes as well as instructional content and practices. In this way, a whole-school approach provides the platform for a holistic understanding of how schools develop capacities students need as members of a global community.

Authors

• Suzanne S. Choo, Nanyang Technological University - National Institute of Education

• Deb Sawch, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Caroline Chan, Nanyang Technological University - National Institute of Education

• Alison Villanueva, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Lubna Alsagoff, Nanyang Technological University - National Institute of Education