The purpose of this article is to argue for the deconstruction rather than the decolonisation of the neocolonial curriculum. Globalisation facilitates the democratisation of higher education, which is now accessible to more people than ever before, but globalisation also facilitates the expansion of the ideological dominance of the Global North…

Presents an overview of an undergraduate course that employs a comparative approach in assessing technological problems. Attention is directed to the influence of cultural values, attitudinal elements, and resource availability on the use of technology. Topic areas considered in the course include transportation, energy, pollution, and health…

This article describes and discusses student evaluation of a college-level sociology course on social movements around the world. The course was designed to cover basic theory on the development of social movements and revolutions and to provide case studies from the United States and other nations through the use of documentary films. The course…

Presented is a syllabus for introducing oceanography and the marine environment into the secondary school curricula of all IOC Member States, whether developed or developing. The main purpose of the syllabus is to promote an understanding of oceanography and the marine environment. The syllabus is action- and output-oriented, as well as…

Seven curriculum programs that stress intercultural understanding and awareness for American students are described, other intercultural-related programs are listed, and an article on global education is presented. The curriculum programs are as follows: "A New Program in Humanistic Liberal Education" at the University of Washington;…

In 1973 an innovative, interdisciplinary global studies course was instituted at a secondary school in Ontario. Designed for advanced students at the grade 13 level, the course emphasized science, language arts, and mathematics issues in terms of the world's environmental and social problems. Rationale for the course included an awareness of the…

This guide describes a fifteen-week macro-analysis seminar about food production, distribution, and consumption on international, national, and local levels. The macro-analysis approach emphasizes the interrelatedness of all parts of the food/hunger issue; therefore the seminar also addresses escalating military expenditures, widening poverty, and…

This curriculum guide is designed to encourage responsible university course development as well as extracurricular activities centered around the world food/hunger problem. Multidisciplinary and global values clarification approaches are basic to the curriculum. Part I of the guide discusses the role of universities in combatting world hunger and…

This curriculum guide is designed as a tool for both university and secondary school use with the purpose of contributing to the further evolution of peace and world order studies. Part I presents three essays on peace and world order education. Part II comprises the majority of the document. It provides detailed outlines of some 50 college…