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SUMMARY:Globalizing Minds: Rhetoric and Realities in International Schools
  - Iveta Silova\, Associate Professor and Program Director\, Comparative a
 nd International Education\, College of Education\, Lehigh University\, US
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CONTACT:Laura Carnicero
DESCRIPTION:Globalization has a profound effect on the mission and goals o
 f education worldwide. One of its most visible manifestations is the world
 wide endorsement of the idea of “education for global citizenship\,” w
 hich has been enthusiastically supported by national governments\, politic
 ians\, and policy-makers across different nations. What is the role of int
 ernational schools in implementing the idea of “education for global cit
 izenship”? How do these schools attempt to create a culturally unbiased 
 global curriculum when the adopted models have been developed by Western s
 ocieties and at the very least are replete with (Western) cultural values\
 , traditions\, and biases? Drawing on findings from a recently published b
 ook\, Globalizing Minds (2014)\, this presentation will attempt to answer 
 some of these questions\, revealing how culture and politics intertwine wi
 th schooling and curriculum as parents\, administrators\, teachers\, and s
 tudents of different backgrounds and interests negotiate definitions of se
 lf and each other in constructing knowledge in particular contexts. The go
 al is to examine the complexity of factors that drive the worldwide demand
  for “education for global citizenship” and de-construct the contested
  nature of “global citizenship” by examining how the phenomenon is und
 erstood\, interpreted\, and modified in different cultural settings. 
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DM
 B\, Room GS5
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