Introduction to Global Education Policy and Analysis

1. How do societal actors and agencies (apart from school) reduce or distort a global perspective?
2. What is perspective consciousness? Provide an example.
3. What is “state of planet awareness”? Provide an example.
4. What is “cross-cultural awareness"? Provide an example.
5. Why is “empathy” such a critical word for Hanvey’s argument? How do traditional, modern and
   post-modern people differ in their understanding of empathy and why?
6. Provide what you believe are an example of understanding “global dynamics”?
   Synthesis Question - Group work completed in class Week 4:
   Imagine you are presenting a workshop on Global Education and your task is to discuss Hanvey’s
   essay and try to help new teachers integrate a global perspective into their teaching. You will need
   to define the grade level in terms of elementary, middle or high school in your work. In a 10 minute
   (10 pages) illustrated by three half page slides discuss what level of consciousness is needed to
   understand today’s global issues such as climate change?

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