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Worldwise Learning

A Teacher's Guide to Shaping a Just, Sustainable Future

By: Carla Marschall, Elizabeth O. Crawford

Presenting a “Pedagogy for People, Planet, and Prosperity,” this book supports K-8 educators in nurturing “Worldwise Learners”: students who both deeply understand and purposefully act when learning about global challenges.

Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781071835944
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Series: Corwin Teaching Essentials
  • Year: 2021
  • Page Count: 360
  • Publication date: September 23, 2021

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Nautilus Gold Award Winner (Books for a Better World) in Social Sciences & Education

Create inclusive, democratic classrooms that prepare knowledgeable, compassionate, and engaged global citizens.

Today’s global challenges—climate change, food and water insecurity, social and economic inequality, and a global pandemic—demand that educators prepare students to become compassionate, critical thinkers who can explore alternative futures. Their own, others’, and the planet’s well-being depend on it.

Worldwise Learning presents a “Pedagogy for People, Planet, and Prosperity” that supports K-8 educators in nurturing “Worldwise Learners”: students who both deeply understand and purposefully act when learning about global challenges. Coupling theory with practice, this book builds educators’ understanding of how curriculum and meaningful interdisciplinary learning can be organized around local, global, and intercultural issues, and provides a detailed framework for making those issues come alive in the classroom. Richly illustrated, each innovative chapter asserts a transformational approach to teaching and learning following an original three-part inquiry cycle, and includes:

  • Practical classroom strategies to implement Worldwise Learning at the lesson level, along with tips for scaffolding students’ thinking.
  • Images of student work and vignettes of learning experiences that help educators visualize authentic Worldwise Learning moments.
  • Stories that spotlight Worldwise Learning in action from diverse student, teacher, and organization perspectives.
  • An exemplar unit plan that illustrates how the planning process links to and can support teaching and learning about global challenges.
  • QR codes that link to additional lesson and unit plans, educational resources, videos of strategies, and interviews with educators and thought leaders on a companion website, where teachers can discuss topics and share ideas with each other.
Worldwise Learning turns students into local and global citizens who feel genuine concern for the world around them, living their learning with intention and purpose. The time is now.
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Carla Marschall

Carla Marschall is an experienced educator, curriculum developer, and pedagogical leader, who has worked in a variety of leadership roles in international schools in Switzerland, Germany, Hong Kong, and Singapore over the past ten years. She currently works as the Director of Teaching & Learning at UWC South East Asia, with the mission to make “education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future.” A certified Lynn Erickson Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction Consultant, Carla is the co-author of Concept-Based Inquiry in Action (Corwin, 2018). Carla holds a Masters in Elementary Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and a Masters in Applied Educational Leadership and Management from the Institute of Education, University of London.

Website: http://www.connectthedotsinternational.com/

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Elizabeth O. Crawford

Elizabeth O. Crawford is a teacher educator, author, researcher, and curriculum designer specializing in global education. She has taught in a variety of school contexts, including elementary and middle schools in France and the United States. Currently an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Elizabeth supports educators as they nurture in students a sense of empathy, responsibility, and concern for self, others, and the environment. She collaborates with other faculty, classroom teachers, and organizations globally to advance the Sustainable Development Goals. Elizabeth firmly believes in the power of education and partnerships to transform lives and to build a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world. She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Policy, Planning, and Leadership with an emphasis in Curriculum Leadership from the College of William & Mary. She may be reached on Twitter at @TeachGlobalEd or via http://www.teachworldwise.com/.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword


Preface


     The Purpose of This Book

     The Worldview and Beliefs That Frame This Book

     An Invitation to the Reader

Acknowledgments


About the Authors


About the Illustrator


INTRODUCTION: THE IMPERATIVE


     Global Competence: Transforming Learning to Action

     Pedagogy for People, Planet, and Prosperity

     Book Features and Structure

PART I: CREATING THE CONDITIONS FOR TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATION


CHAPTER 1: THE WORLDWISE LEARNING FRAMEWORK

     Learning in a Globalized World

     Curriculum Design for Understanding and Action

     The Learning Process: Inquiring Into People, the Planet, and Prosperity

CHAPTER 2: CREATING INCLUSIVE, DEMOCRATIC CLASSROOMS

     The Democratic Classroom

     Student-Centered Planning in the Democratic Classroom

     The Worldwise Learning Planning Process

     Strategies for Democratic Classrooms

CHAPTER 3: COMPLEX ISSUES KNOW NO DISCIPLINES

     Understanding Issues Using Interdisciplinary Learning

     The Role of Disciplinary Knowledge

     A Fruitful Exploration of Interdisciplinary Learning

     “Up and Out” Transfer

     The Interdisciplinary Learning Continuum

     Strategies for Interdisciplinary Learning

PART II: CONNECT: ENGAGING THE HEART, HEAD, AND HAND


CHAPTER 4: PERSPECTIVE-TAKING AND PERSPECTIVE-GETTING

     Perspectives as Lenses for Understanding Complex Issues

     When Perspective-Taking Is Not Appropriate

     Looking Inward: Understanding the Self

     Looking Outward: Understanding Others

     Perspective-Getting: Seeking Out Diverse Perspectives

     Strategies for Perspective-Taking and Perspective-Getting

CHAPTER 5: THE POWER OF STORY TO BUILD CONNECTION

     Stories Are All Around Us

     The Storytelling Brain

     Storytelling as a Pedagogical Tool for Worldwise Learning

     Stories as Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors

     Beyond Words: Art, Map-Making, and Data Visualization

     Strategies for Storytelling

PART III: UNDERSTAND: DEVELOPING “BIG PICTURE” THINKING


CHAPTER 6: SYSTEMS, SYSTEMS EVERYWHERE

     Understanding Issues Using a Systems Approach

     What Is a System, Really?

     Developing Systems Thinkers

     Strategies for Systems Thinking

CHAPTER 7: UP TO THE CONCEPTUAL LEVEL

     Conceptual Thinking to Understand Complexity

     Levels of Conceptual Thinking

     Level 1: Concept Formation

     Level 2: Generalizing

     Level 3: Transferring Understanding

     Clearing Roadblocks to Conceptual Thinking

     Developing Conceptual Understanding Through Case Studies

     Strategies for Conceptual Thinking

PART IV: ACT: PARTICIPATING AS GLOBAL CITIZENS


CHAPTER 8: CITIZENSHIP WITHIN AND BEYOND THE CLASSROOM

     Big Ideas of Global Citizenship

     What Global Citizenship Is Not

     Big Idea #1: Global citizens develop global citizen identities.

     Big Idea #2: Global citizens interrogate and draw connections between the structures, systems, and perspectives that underpin issues, including at different scales.

     Big Idea #3: Global citizens engage in purposeful, informed action with others.

     Strategies for Global Citizenship

CHAPTER 9: BEING A WORLDWISE EDUCATOR

     Global Competence as an Ongoing Journey

     Connect Phase for Worldwise Educators

     Understand Phase for Worldwise Educators

     Act Phase for Worldwise Educators

     Strategies for Worldwise Educators

Appendix A: Sample Unit Planner: Pollinator Power!


Glossary


References


Index


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