Discusses the issue of citizenship attitude in the Caribbean. Suggests that attention needs to be paid to the problems of development and the relationship between the industrialized and nonindustrialized world. Advocates an increased knowledge base as a means of changing attitudes. Recommends a number of approaches to education. (KO)

Project ICONS (International Communication and Negotiation Simulation) is a computer-assisted simulation that casts students in diplomat and policymaker roles. Thrust into a laboratory of high-powered negotiations, they grapple with solutions to real and urgent international issues: world health, human rights, and the spread of nuclear technology.…

Discusses the effects of war on children, the exploitation of children worldwide, and the current efforts of the United Nations to protect them. Suggests several classroom activities and an exercise based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child to encourage student awareness. (DMM)

Addresses the teaching of world problems to elementary students. Suggests that children already are aware of world problems and the effects on their own lives. Discusses the use of group discussions, role play, and thematic resource folders to help children develop problem-solving skills for dealing with global issues and problems in their own…

Discusses common and critical global problems related to children who are at risk. Section on academic failure examines programs for preschool children, education for disadvantaged children at the elementary school level, and an ecological approach to the problem. Other sections explore issues of youth alienation, the future of the human species,…

Examines news accounts of lives caught in violent political conflict--accounts of suffering and death that record a discourse closer to silence than to talk. Concludes that such journalism can be read as a flight from chaos and a demand for order, or as an appeal for human solidarity in the midst of history's cruelest contingencies. (SR)

Explores the issue of whether evil exists in the world and the best ways to confront it. Claims that the ubiquitousness of evil places a responsibility on social studies educators to address it in the classroom. Offers six suggestions for teaching students about the existence and implications of evil. (CMK)

Assesses the worries of 622 adolescent (between 12 and 20 years old) clients of an Ohio medical clinic on an 80-item self-report measure, the "Things That Worry Me" scale. Findings indicated consistent concerns related to terrorism, adolescents' self-esteem, parents' physical and mental health, and adolescents' dating and sexual relationships.…

UNICEF states that in 88 countries studied "more than 13 million children currently under the age of 15 have lost both parents to Aids, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa" (UNICEF 2002). The impact of this Aids pandemic cannot be overstated. Indeed the long-term impact of such statistics is scarcely imaginable and has not been…

In this article, the author comments on the tension between patriotism and free inquiry, and appeals for a patriotism that allows people to think well of their country without suspending critical judgment. Patriotism does not imply automatic assent to the specific views and policies of the leaders of the regime to which one is loyal. To be topical…

This case study provides perspectives on the War in Iraq with information collected from Sabah, Malaysia, educators. The author has analyzed input from Sabahan teachers regarding their discussions of United States-led war efforts in Iraq. The implications for discourse in Sabahan classrooms are described. The author then argues that Sabahan…

This document is a curriculum resource aimed at correcting common misconceptions that people have of conditions in the developing world. It emphasizes the common needs and aspirations of all the world's children while focusing on cooperation as a basic human response that can be directed toward solving some major global problems. This guide is…

Education for global perspectives and non-violent relations is increasingly seen as an important task for schools. This bibliography of monographs, articles, and reports dealing with peace education is heterogeneous in kind and the items are available from a broad range of sources. The listed materials are written in English, German, and the…

Designed for high school global education classes, this document examines ways in which the arms race affects the poor. Military expenditures and foreign economic aid of the developed nations are compared with survival needs of developing nations. Statistics support five premises: the arms race (1) diverts resources from productive activity and…

The sources of political violence against Guatemala's rural poor are traced in this document for high school global education classes. The paper summarizes "Witness to Political Violence in Guatemala: The Suppression of a Rural Development Movement" (Oxfam America's Impact Audit No. 2). The study was based on 115 respondents, both…