Community-engaged experiential learning (CEEL) has emerged as a model of teaching and learning that provides postsecondary institutions with a framework for meaningfully connecting with their wider communities in ways that ensure mutual benefits. This study explores CEEL, including the challenges and value of CEEL, in the context of international…

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) became a global thought and the responsibility of their implementation reset on governments, institutions and even individuals, so that, it is necessary to assess the level of people's understanding of these goals in order to support any subsequent measures related to its implementation, When the university…

Global software engineering has changed the way software is developed today. To address the new challenges, many universities have launched specially tailored courses to train young professionals to work in globally distributed projects. However, a mere acknowledgment of the geographic, temporal, and cultural differences does not necessarily lead…

This study used task-based group interviews with young adolescents in four countries to investigate their understanding of the causes of human rights violations, means for protecting human rights, and their own potential role in ensuring human rights. Although students recognized the role of personal and institutional factors in both violating and…

In 2015, 193 countries committed to achieving the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a shared vision of humanity that provides the missing piece of the globalisation puzzle. The extent to which that vision becomes a reality will depend on today's classrooms; and it is educators who hold the key to ensuring that the SDGs become a real…

Now entering into its 20th year of data collection, Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, (TIMSS) is an international assessment of mathematics and science at the fourth and eighth grades. TIMSS 2015 is the most recent in the TIMSS series, which began with the first assessments in 1995 and has continued every four years--1999,…

This report on the experimental Northeast Global Studies Middle Magnet School in Kansas City, Missouri, discusses the planning and implementation of a global studies curriculum to be implemented by the school. The 1990-1991 school year was the school's first as a magnet school under a consent decree issued by a federal judge. The decree was…

An inventory to identify the actions, attitudes, and goals that a school staff feels are important in helping the school population become globally oriented is presented. Teachers rate their feelings about statements relevant to global education on a scale of positive/neutral/negative. Section I includes statements on adult actions, attitudes, and…

This report examines the internationalization of post-secondary education institutions in British Columbia and presents the results of a survey of international education representatives at 22 post-secondary institutions in the province. Internationalization is defined as the process that prepares the community for successful participation in an…

The Acceptance of Global Education Scale (AGES) measures the attitudes of secondary social studies teachers toward goal statements for the social studies curriculum that reflect a global perspective. AGES can be used in inservice and preservice teacher training programs to form guidelines for construction of a secondary global education…

This report presents findings of a 1993 survey of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada members covering international educational activities at Canadian universities. The study was designed to identify and describe the administrative rationales and priorities attributed to internationalization, organizational factors related to…