A New Resource for Teaching Students to Understand, Care About and Improve the World

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May 25, 2017

As a member of our Advisory Board, Fernando M. Reimers shares in our mission to create opportunities for students to learn about the world and take action as innovators and thinkers. In his new book, Empowering Students to Improve the World in Sixty Lessons, Professor Reimers has joined with his students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education to provide tools and a curriculum prototype for teachers and school leaders who recognize the importance of including global learning in K-12 education systems.

Professor Reimers defines global citizenship education as: “supporting educators so that schools can enhance human rights, educate about shared global challenges, educate for engaged citizenship, focus on dispositions and values as much as skills, and attend to the conditions that make it possible for schools to be effective in achieving these goals.” With praise from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that is planning to assess global competence in PISA 2018, this book is a welcome resource for educators around the globe who are motivating students to appreciate cultural differences and change the world.