Global Learning

Global learning refers to the contemporary expansion, beyond national borders, of the scope, nature, and role of educational systems as a result of globalization. It is a term, among others, such as global education and global literacy, that has recently been introduced in education. It is, in relation to the concepts mentioned above, more focused on the educational practice and the values, attitudes, and skills that intersect with the curriculum. Global learning is a pedagogy encompassing a widening horizon for educational goals, a global perspective for curricular content, and a response to the wider geographical scope of the individual in society. However, its philosophical and sociological meaning, and the corresponding implications for educational practice, is not s traightforward, unequivocal, or immediately comprehensible. Its interpretation and ...