Educating global citizens in colleges and universities
Subtitle: challenges and opportunities
By: Peter N. Stearns.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780415990233; 9780415990240; 9780203885185
Subjects: International education -- United States; Education, Higher -- Curricula -- United States
Description: "This book provides distinctive analysis of the full range of expressions in global education at a crucial time, when international competition is rising, 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 aspects of global education, including curriculum, study abroad, international students, and collaborations and branch campuses, while dealing as well with management issues and options. The book is intended to guide academic administrators and students in higher education at a point when international education issues increasingly impinge on all aspects of college or university operation. The book also deals with core principles that must guide global educational endeavors and with problems and issues in the field in general as well as in specific functional areas. Challenges of assessment also win attention. Higher education professionals will find that this book serves as a manageable and provocative guide, in one of the most challenging and exciting areas of American higher education today."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Defining the challenge; title: Goals : where we should be headed; title: Contexts for global education; title: Curriculum : the foundations for global education; title: Education abroad : redefining a staple; title: International students and global education; title: Branch campuses and collaboration : a new frontier; title: Leadership and administration : bureaucratic innovation without bureaucratization; title: Assessment; title: General observations : some underlying issues; title: Conclusion : the global mission.