INDEX

Area Studies
Overview
Africa
Asia
 -Eastern
 -Southern
 -Southeast
 -General
Canada
Europe-East
Europe-West
Latin America
Middle East
International Studies

Teaching Resources
The Arts
Business
Civics
Environment
Foreign Language
Geography
Global Education
 -A-C
 -F-J
 -K-P
 -Q-Z
Human Rights
 -Children
 -Genocide
 -Holocaust
 -Law/Values
 -Hunger
 -Indigenous
  Peoples
 -Population
 -Poverty
 -Refugees
 -Tolerance
Multicultural
Peace
State Depts. of Education
Sustainability
Teaching Materials
 -For profit
 -Nonprofit
Technology
Travel & Exchange
World Affairs Council
World History

Schools
Network Projects
K-12
Elementary
Middle school
High school

GLOBAL EDUCATION, Q-Z

Review of International Social Questions (RISQ)

www.risq.org

RISQ is an independent association of scholars, journalists, politicians, and activists who seek to render international political decision-making more inclusive, equitable, and responsible. The web site is organized around key themes such the governance of multicultural societies, globalization, and human rights. It has a set of links related to these themes and to a variety of worldwide news sources. It allows students to see world events from a global perspective.

Scholastic Assistance for Global Education (SAGE)

http://sage.tamu.edu/

SAGE is a service provided to the educational community by the Center for International Business Studies in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. A very large number of resources concerned with international education are organized by grade level at the primary level and by courses at the secondary level, by topic, and by country and region of the world. There also is a category of maps and one of “special aids” that consists of lesson plans, links to current events, and other teaching resources. The Texas State Social Studies Standards also are on the site.

The Southern Center for International Studies (SCIS)

www.scis.org

SCIS seeks to educate Americans about the world through three program areas: (1) seminars and lectures featuring international experts; (2) major television conferences, namely the Peabody Award-winning roundtable discussion with U.S. and world leaders which airs nationally on PBS; and (3) professional development workshops for teachers, using SCIS’s seven-part World in Transition educational materials. This series consists of instructional guides and videotapes covering seven world regions from geographic, economic, political, cultural, and environmental perspectives. The units are updated periodically, and can be ordered from the web site.

The Stanley Foundation

www.stanleyfoundation.org

The Stanley Foundation does not give grants. Rather, it is focused on promoting and building support for principled multilateralism in addressing international issues. It support a number of international programs such as The United Nations and 21st Century Security, The U.S. and the Muslim World, Strategies for U.S. National Security. It publishes reports of conferences focused on these programs and Courier, a regular publication of the foundation which can be subscribed to free online.

TeachGlobal.net

www.teachglobaled.net

TeachGlobalEd.net is the product of ongoing collaboration of Ohio State University's Social Studies and Global Education program with OSU's African Studies Center, East Asian Studies Center, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Middle East Studies Center, the Slavic and Eastern European Studies Center and the Indiana University's Center for the Study of Global Change. The Center has approved all 7000 plus resources offered here for K-12 teachers. Test.

Teaching Resources for International Education

www.world-affairs.org/classroom.html

This is an extremely comprehensive listing of organizations and institutions that support international and intercultural education in Washington State. It is published by the World Affairs Council of Seattle in partnership with the Outreach Center of the Henry M. Jackson School for International Studies. The project was supported by the American Forum for Global Education, the Asia Society, and the Longview Foundation. It is updated as needed. This resource catalog is an outstanding model for other states and/or regions of the country.

Tulsa Global Alliance

www.tulsaglobalalliance.org

The Alliance is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to increasing global awareness and understanding in Northeastern Oklahoma through a number of community activities, including promoting global education for children and youth. In conjunction with the Eisenhower International School, the Alliance sponsors the Culture Box, a hands-on authentic box of activities representing specific countries, for use in the classroom. The Global Youth Alliance is comprised of middle and high school youth interested in broadening their global horizons and meeting students from around the world.

University of Central Florida (UCF)

http://www.reach.ucf.edu

The UCF College of Education has three initiatives of note related to teaching from a global perspective: (1) a FIPSE grant to support teacher education candidates to do school-based internships/field experiences in Europe (Northern Ireland, Spain, and the Netherlands), (2) a bi-annual Global Education Institute for area teachers who attempt to teach from a global perspective, and (3) a Graduate Seminar in the theory and practice of global education that is offered annually.

University of South Florida (USF)

www.coedu.usf.edu

The College of Education at the University of South Florida provides teacher training and preparation with a global/multicultural focus.

University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh

e-mail: rettig@uwosh.edu

The University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh has a new K-12 teacher cohort program with a global educator emphasis that will grant a Global Education Certificate.

Upper Canada District School Board Global Education Committee

www.ucdsb.on.ca/gec/

The committee is made up of teachers and administrators from across the Upper Canada District. The aim of the committee is to promote such things as understanding and appreciation of diversity; development of interpersonal skills; understanding of justice, human rights and responsibilities; and awareness of our own perspectives and acceptance of those of others. To this end, the committee sponsors such things as Global Gallery, where schools share projects related to global education during Education Week; a school twinning project in which interested schools are matched with schools in Third World Countries.

Victoria International Development Association (VIDEA)

www.videa.ca

VIDEA has been involved in the promotion and delivery of global education in Victoria and the South Vancouver Island area since 1977. VIDEA provides learning opportunities through special events, seminars, workshops, tours and conferences, for schools and for the general public. VIDEA is one of Canada’s oldest global education centres. It facilitates communication, cooperation and networking among Canadian groups working for global justice, peace and sustainable development, linking local and international issues with community initiatives.

Virginia Center for the Teaching of International Relations

www.vacenter.org

The major purpose of the Center is to support and promote the teaching of international studies in middle and high schools in Virginia. Activities include a teacher fellows program, one-week summer institutes, 30-hour graduate seminars, and one-day workshops. The Center is a partnership between the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University and the World Affairs Council of Richmond.

Western Carolina University International Programs and Services (IPS)

www.wcu.edu/ips

The major role of the International Programs and Services Office is to serve the Western Carolina University students and faculty. In addition, they have responsibility for community outreach which includes the provision of presentations about international events, specific international cultures, and international languages to K-12 students in the Western Carolina region. Through the Japan Global Partnership, IPS collaborates with other North Carolina universities and universities in Japan to facilitate the exchange of curriculum, research, and public school faculty between North Carolina and Japanese public schools.

World Affairs Seminar (WAS)

www.worldaffairsseminar.org

WAS is an educational program that provides a forum for future leaders to be introduced to many of the perplexing global issues and problems facing the world. It enables hundreds of high school students from around the world to come together for six days at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater to get to know each other better and to discuss such issues and problems. U.S. and Canadian students make up a major part of the population. The majority of international students who attend will have been enrolled in U.S. or Canadian high schools on exchange programs such as AFS, RYE, and YFU.

World Bank

www.worldbank.org

The Resources for Kids and Schools section of this site has learning material, humanitarian profiles, research tips, links, and data and information on most countries of the world. Teachers can interact and exchange ideas with teachers from around the world on the Communities of Learning section. The World Bank Press Review is a daily online summary of business news from around the world.

Worldbeat

www.earthbeat.sk.ca/worldbeat/wbproject.htm

The Worldbeat Global Education Project is an educational initiative aimed at locating, evaluating and increasing traffic to the many excellent web sites that offer outstanding global education opportunities to Saskatchewan teachers and students. By linking local non-governmental organizations with Saskatchewan teachers, the project offers classrooms a meaningful context in which global citizenship knowledge and skills may develop, as well as an opportunity to practice them. The Project produces the Worldbeat Global Education Resource Magazine that is posted online and distributed electronically to teachers around the province by e-mail. It also delivers a Professional Development Workshop to raise teachers’ awareness of global issues, technology, and resources available that will assist them integrate these elements in their classrooms.

Worldpress.org

www.worldpress.org

Drawing upon publications around the globe, and a network of correspondents in dozens of countries, worldpress.org illuminates the issues that barely see the light day in the mainstream press, translating, reprinting, analyzing, and contextualizing the best of the international press from more than 20 languages. More than simply provide international news and information, worldpress.org provides users with a view of the political and economic climate from a variety of global perspectives. The site also provides maps of regions and countries of the world along with accompanying data.

World Savvy: Think Beyond Your Borders

www.worldsavvy.org

World Savvy's mission is to educate and engage young people in community and world affairs, and we achieve this through core programs:

World Affairs Challenge: An annual academic international affairs program & competition

Global Youth Media and Arts Program: Young artists' perspectives on community and world affairs..

Professional Development Program: Enables middle and high school teachers to mainstream global issues into the classroom.

World View Magazine Online

www.worldviewmagazine.com

This quarterly magazine of news and commentary about the Peace Corps world is published quarterly. Each issue provides news summaries from more than 90 nations, reviews of books written about the developing world, new and original fiction by developing-world writers, and reporting, essays, and opinions about events in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Pacific.

World View, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

www.unc.edu/world

World View has partnerships with school districts, community colleges, and four-year colleges that focus on a commitment to global education. Partners agree to send educators to World View programs. These programs include workshops on campus for educators, visits to partner schools to speak on global issues to students and teachers, and connections for K-12 educators to other available global education resources. World View produces a semi-annual newsletter and a monthly electronic update that inform educators of upcoming events and updates readers on available resources.  The web site has a resource section with links to other important global education sites.