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Worldwise Learning

A Teacher's Guide to Shaping a Just, Sustainable Future
By: Carla Marschall, Elizabeth O. Crawford

Illustrations by Chris Gadbury
Foreword by Verónica Boix Mansilla

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.

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  • 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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