Anatoli Rapoport

As our world becomes increasingly connected, global issues become entangled with students' dailylives. To prepare students as globally aware future leaders, social studies curricula must reflect the realityof these current global challenges. Drawing from theories and frameworks in global social studieseducation, Jing A. Williams, B rbara C. Cruz, and Anatoli Rapoport provide practical, cross-curricularmethods for secondary social studies teachers to incorporate global education into their daily teaching.Organized by common social studies content areas, each chapter identifies topics that supportglobalmindedness. This book also includes powerful vignettes based on real classroom interactions andinnovative, classroom-tested teaching approaches and strategies that engage students in activities thathold personal meaning for them. Benefitting educators at all levels, Teaching With a Global Perspective: Approaches and Strategies for Secondary Social Studies Teachers encourages educators to cultivate globalawareness, challenge their students' thinking, and support their development as informed citizens in aninterconnected world.

Revision with unchanged content. Beulah Rohlich once noted that educators have believed for many years that in-ternational programs were "an enriching experience" but very few if any could explain what that meant. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the impact of international exchange and training programs on pedagogical prac-tices of their participants. Interviews with international program alumni from Russia and the United States, author's observations and personal ex-pe-rience provide unique opportunity for understanding how participants of in-ter-national programs implement, institutionalize, transfer, share and sustain the experiences, skills and knowledge that they obtain during their programs. This work is addressed to a diverse audience: researchers will find here rich da-ta and methodologies for further studies in the areas of international, com-pa-rative, and civic education; international program developers, organisers, and coordinators will find sound advice how to improve exchange and trai-ning programs and make them more meaningful; future international ex-change participants will find a couple of sincere answers to myriads of ques-tions that they have before they commence a jorney to "fields unknown".