INTERNATIONALIZING EDUCATIONAL KNOWLEDGE

EDPOL/INTLST 335

Discuss the ways education is inextricably linked to global political, economic, and social contexts. Reflect on both scholarly research and popular conceptions of market, society and schools in different geographic and cultural contexts. Approach globalization from a context-sensitive, place-based approach, rather than abstract, predictive method through interdisciplinary analysis. Explore the concept of globalization across disciplinary frameworks including anthropology, geography, and history. Provides critical analysis to understand the challenges facing education in a globalization era, to build stronger commitment to helping address those challenges, and a set of skills for researching and writing about them. Examine the following "problem-spaces": globalization and migration; globalization and race; global testing and assessment; marketization of education; global city development and higher education; youth culture and globalization.

CURRIC 292

Designed to explore the regionally, societally and culturally embedded nature of schooling, impacts of globalization on schooling, the relationship of schooling to increasingly global societies, and how policy, curriculum instruction, both domestically and internationally, are both shaped by and sometimes responsive to globalization.

CURRIC 716

Social, political and epistemological assumptions underlying current efforts towards curriculum and instructional reform in elementary and secondary schools.

CURRIC 727

Starts with a simple proposition that 19th century modern school curriculum is concerned with making kinds of people: "the citizen", "a worker", "civic minded", "life-long learner", "motivated", "with grit", etc. Discussions explore "the building (and disseminating) of knowledge" in schools (curriculum) across nations, cultures, and within political and religious modes of thought, to understand how differences in the self and others are produced through schooling. Internationalizing education means understanding how curriculum, pedagogy, theories of learning, and notions of childhood from schooling generate "ways of thinking" about "kinds of people". Internationalizing the field of curriculum and instruction shows how difference is produced and categorized. Facilitates thinking about how regional and national representations of people go unexamined in school curriculums when studying "others".

ELPA 886

Close look at issues, trends, and challenges concerning internationalization in higher education in both the U.S. and foreign countries. Focus includes internationalizing teaching and learning, international partnerships and collaborations, international student recruitment and advising, study abroad etc.