Please register here for Introduction to Global Education and Pedagogical Application

BTLC Credits: GO, IS

This workshop is mandatory for students in the GO track. What are the pedagogies that drive successful learning outcomes in programs and curricula that include teaching and learning for global perspectives? What does it mean to center social-justice education to promote more inclusive spaces for teaching and learning? This workshop will examine several case studies and examples of curriculum...

Please register here for Global Citizenship Education and Its Critics

BTLC Credits: IS, GO

This workshop focuses on the scholarship of, views on, and pedagogical practices around global citizenship education. Mission statements and class syllabi—and popular culture, too—often assume we should prepare students to be "global citizens." But is this something we should want them—and ourselves—to aspire to? In this session, we will ask some of these important questions, look at the views of GCE's...

Please register here for the workshop To Africa and Beyond: Incorporating Critical Global Competence in the Classroom.

(BTLC Credits: GO, IS)

Global education expands past borders and brings differing perspectives into our classrooms on a daily basis. It is essential that educators are deliberate with the perspectives told in their classroom and how those perspectives are portrayed. Born out of a month-long professional development trip to Namibia, this session aims to explore how we can...

Please register here for Colonialism, Imperialism and the Histories that Shaped Us.

BTLC Credits: IS, GO *This workshop is mandatory for the GO track.

People, communities, cultures, and countries are more connected with others across the globe than they have ever been. Globalization, however, is not without problems, both ethical and social. This workshop will explore the global and local dimensions of social, historical and cultural issues that shape us, with a particular lens on how schools and...