Deep insight into meeting out class instruction that builds on local, state, national and
global history concepts.
Not exact matches
What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in
history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the
concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge
global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?
Built on specific English and world
history state standards, the project covered
concepts including the pre-World War II
global economic crisis, the rise of totalitarianism, and the societal moral dilemmas that world leaders at that time faced, and then had students draw parallels to similar fictional themes in the book.
Her book UNESCO's Utopia of Lifelong Learning: An Intellectual
History (Routledge, 2018) examines how UNESCO has shaped the
concept of lifelong learning in the context of the shifting political economy and architecture of
global governance of education.
The
concept grew out of Sun Xun's preoccupation with
global history, culture and politics.
«The Beginning of a New Era» stages artworks that investigate the
concept of
global village and the acceleration of our
history, environmental changes and the invasion of technology in individual and social life.
Sure, we're all familiar with the
concept of «peak oil,» its contribution to anthropogenic
global warming and fuel alternatives, but what about its
history?