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 inorder 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.
