Global Issues of the 21st Century:
A Systems Approach to Understanding
Workshop presented by …
Dr. Denise R. Ames
Center for Global Awareness
505 344-1892 cell 505 480-0271
email
drames@global-awareness.net website
www.global-awareness.net
Workshop Description
This workshop is an interdisciplinary inquiry into the complex and far-reaching changes transforming our world community. Over the past few decades, the world has increasingly operated as a single integrated system rather than a mosaic of independent countries. This phenomenon, commonly referred to as “globalization,” is the major trend reshaping social, cultural, political, technological, environmental, and economic processes and educational structures around the world. This globalization trend has acutely influenced the global issues we will be covering in this workshop. We will allow apply time to integrate ways in which the global issues content can be innovatively incorporated into the school curriculum.
Workshop Objectives
· Use a systems approach to examine information about vital global issues that will enhance educator’s content knowledge base.
· Deconstruct multiple worldviews and global perspectives about current global issues.
· Connect interdisciplinary perspectives to explore multiple meanings, theories, and definitions of globalization.
· Synthesize information with the goal of understanding how globalization is shaping developments within the United States, affecting people across the planet, distressing the natural world, and influencing our teaching.
· Evaluate, using critical thinking skills, the benefits and drawbacks of a globalized world and participate in a dialogue exploring possible alternative paths to globalization.
Investigate a variety of learning and assessment tools in order that our students are able to better understand critical global issues.