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A Life Like Mine
Posted by: mmerryfield on Wednesday, March 3, 2010A Life Like Mine tells the story of how children live around the world through four themes: survival, development, protection, participation. Excellent images and text suitable for upper elementary and middle school students. Truly has a global perspective. Includes many visuals and maps.
Is is published by UNICEF.
EarthRights: Education as if the Planet Really Mattered. (1987/1992).
Posted by: admin on Monday, February 8, 2010Recommended because it presents first-year data from the three-year ‘Global Impact’ project. The book provides commentary, quotes, illustrations, and graphics that explore global issues and perspectives in education. The book explores peace education, human rights education, development education, environmental education, and aims for (global) education (for action). The book also discusses the process of schooling, schools in a world of change, and infusing global perspectives in the early childhood classrooms (beginning early). The book supports subject-based approaches to infusing global perspectives in secondary schools. The book offers ten starting points for teachers who want to teach as if the planet really mattered.
Citation: Greig, Sue, Pike, Graham, & Selby, David. London: World Wildlife Fund for Nature/Kogan Page.
Annual Editions: Global Issues 09/10. (2009).
Posted by: admin onRecommended because new editions each year contain collections of 30-40 up to date articles from scholars and the world press that examine the most important global issues facing the planet. The book has a world map, a glossary, a topic guide, and a list of related websites. This is one of many Annual Editions series. Others (see list on the Annual Editions website) are also relevant to specific issues as well as regional studies.
Citation: Jackson, Robert M. (editor). Guilford, CT: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin. http://www.dushkin.com
The Gaia Peace Atlas: Survival into the Third Millennium. (1988).
Posted by: admin onRecommended because it provides global perspectives on peace as more than just the absence of war. It provides analyses of the roots of peace and war by exploring human, nuclear, and environmental crises threatening humanity and our planet. The book provides research from international people and organizations/institutions on proposals for immediate and long-term sustainable peace. Exercise and exercise overviews center on (1) what is culture, (2) the building blocks of culture, (3) styles of communication, (4) culture in the workplace, and (5) the cross-cultural perspective. Chapter 2 contains exercises that explore the concept of self (individualist vs. collectivist), personal vs. societal responsibility (universalist vs. particularist), the concept of time (monochronic vs. polychronic), and locus of control (internal vs. external). The ‘Dialogues’ exercise contains four brief cross-cultural dialogues (with seemingly missing exchanges) where students have to figure out the cross-cultural meanings/misunderstandings in the dialogues.
Citation: Barnaby, Frank (editor). New York: Doubleday. http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday
Global Perspectives: A Handbook for Understanding Global Issues. (1999).
Posted by: admin onRecommended because it provides a multidisciplinary approach to explaining general global vocabulary, issues, and trends (i.e., cultural diversity, economic development, the natural environment, and international peace and violence). The book provides case study analyses of the global issues and trends explored in the book. Chapter titles are (1) Introduction to the Modern World, (2) Ethnicity and Global Diversity, (3) Perspectives on Ethnicity and Global Diversity, (4) Economic Development, (5) Perspectives on Economic Development, (6) Human Ecological Sustainability, (7) Perspectives on Human Ecological Sustainability, (8) Peace and War, and (9) Perspectives on Peace and War.
Citation: Kelleher, Ann, & Klein, Laura. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Global Learning On-Line
Posted by: admin on Tuesday, January 19, 2010Recommended because it provides links to information, activities, and resources for educators interested in teaching about global issues.
The Globalization Website
Posted by: admin onRecommended because because it is a megasiteof globalization resources. The site was created and is maintained by the Sociology Department at Emory University and used in their globally oriented courses. The site links to organizations, books, people, issues, theories, and a glossary. The site also links to other megasites, data sources, non-English sites (German, French, and Spanish).
Global Rivers Environmental Education Network (GREEN)
Posted by: admin onRecommended because it focuses on helping youth understand, improve, and sustain water resources in their communities. The site links to information and resources on how youth can become involved in watershed protection projects. The resources can either be downloaded (Adobe Acrobat required) or read online. Teachers and students may find the background information, help, mapping your watershed, watershed basics, identifying watershed problems, and water quality monitoring links very beneficial in understanding the process of protecting and sustaining water resources. The site also links to good resources for teachers and students learning how to conduct research on environmental issues.
International Forum on Globalization (IFG)
Posted by: admin onRecommended because because the IFG focuses on (1) exposing the multiple effects of economic globalization in order to stimulate debate, and (2) seeking to reverse the globalization process by encouraging ideas and activities which revitalize local economies and communities, and ensure long term ecological stability. IFG Programs include the International Forum on Food and Agriculture, the Committee on Environmental Impacts of Economic Globalization, the Committee on the Globalization of Water, the Committee on Global Finance, and the Committee on Corporations. IFG also produces tapes and publications on globalization and its impacts. The site also links to information on the World Trade Organization (WTO), the IMF and the World Bank, and the United Nations & the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
URL: http://www.ifg.org/
New Society Publishers
Posted by: admin onRecommended because it publishes books on building an ecologically sustainable and just society. In association with Pippin Publishing, it distributes In the Global Classroom 1 & 2 by Graham Pike and David Selby.
Project Learning Tree (PLT)
Posted by: admin onRecommended because PLT, an international environmental education program for educators and students in Pre-K-12, is a program of the program of the American Forest Foundation, one of the most widely used environmental education programs in the United States and abroad. Contact your state/international PLT coordinator for information, resources, and materials. Check PLT curriculum materials for lesson plans, ideas, and activities for students in Pre-K-8 and 9-12. For community action and service learning projects, ideas, and activities, check GreenWorks!
URL: http://www.plt.org/
Cyberschoolbus
Posted by: admin onRecommended because Cyberschoolbus provides a wealth of information for educators on the world and its issues. Some sections are very kid-friendly.
World Resources Institute
Posted by: admin onRecommended because WRI is an environmental think tank that provides information, ideas, and solutions to global environmental problems. Start with Global Topics to find resources on agriculture and food, biodiversity and protected areas, business and economics, climate change and energy, etc. See links to WRI Projects and EarthTrends, an Environmental Information Portal.
URL: http://www.wri.org/