TY - BOOK AU - Reimers, Fernando M. AB - This open access book addresses how to help students find purpose in a rapidly changing world. In a probing and visionary analysis of the field of global education Fernando Reimers explains how to lead the transformation of schools and school systems in order to more effectively prepare students to address today’s’ most urgent challenges and to invent a better future. Offering a comprehensive and multidimensional framework for designing and implementing a global education program that combines cultural, psychological, professional, institutional and political perspectives the book integrates an extensive body of empirical literature on the practice of global education. It discusses several global citizenship curricula that have been adopted by schools and school networks, and ties them into an approach to lead school change into the uncharted territory of the future. Given its scope, the book will help teachers, school and district leaders tackle the change management needed in order to introduce global education, and more generally increase the relevancy of education. In addition, the book offers a “bridge” for more productive collaboration and communication between those who lead the process of educational change, and those who study and theorize this important work. At a time when the urgency of our shared global challenges calls for more understanding and collaboration and when the rapid transformation of societies requires that we help students develop a clear sense of relevancy and purpose, this book offers a way to pursue deep and sustainable change in instruction and school culture, so that students learn that nothing human is foreign and that they can find meaning in lives aligned with audacious purposes to make the world better. DO - 10.1007/978-981-15-3887-2 ID - OAPEN ID: ID_20200423_5 KW - Curriculum Studies KW - Educational Policy and Politics KW - Learning & Instruction KW - Education Policy KW - Sociology of Education KW - 21st century skills KW - global education KW - multicultural education KW - deeper learning KW - immigrant students KW - diversity and education KW - teaching diverse students KW - framework for global education KW - global citizenship education KW - global citizenship curriculum KW - leading transformation of schools KW - internationalization of education KW - school reform KW - school change KW - school leadership KW - open access KW - Curriculum planning & development KW - Educational strategies & policy KW - Teaching skills & techniques KW - Cognition & cognitive psychology KW - Central / national / federal government policies KW - Sociology KW - Education KW - Social research & statistics L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/7fc1e610-41c1-4351-85d8-e5e24c7734f5/978-981-15-3887-2.pdf LA - English LK - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37361 PB - Springer Nature PP - Singapore PY - 2020 TI - Educating Students to Improve the Worldnull ER -