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Educating the Global Village

Educating the Global Village's most striking feature is that it seeks, in a systematic way, to anticipate and plan for the consequences to the social structure of the significant demographic shifts that have occurred in the US over the last 25 years. The structure of American population has shifted toward what has been termed a society reflecting diversity -- of race, culture, language, and so on -- and this book appears to have been conceived as an analysis of, and suggestions for, meeting the emerging society's educational and career needs. There is a dual focus of narrative: on the emerging diversity generation in this country and on the fact that this generation will be living in a global society also marked by geopolitical, nation-state, cultural, and other categories of diversity, as well as a diverse set of priorities and capabilities. The authors argue that the main need the emerging generations, in particular the youngest children, will have is for education and training that are suited to the task of facilitating their ability to cope with the vicissitudes of future experience in the context of the global village.

Beginning from the premise that multinational organizations and high-tech communications have shrunk the world in material ways and fostered increasingly complex educational needs, the authors describe principles of global education for young children, then connect those principles to both children's-rights advocacy and the principles of and need for an ethos of world citizenship. Citing the multiple educational and political models around the world -- none of which by itself answers all prospective needs and learning styles of all children in all cultures -- the text argues for inclusive, multicultural, and multi-modal instructional strategies, which are meant to enable learning opportunities at a variety of socioeconomic and culture-specific levels.

Throughout, the particular focus is on "multicultural Ameri...

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