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How "global" are global history teachers? Secondary social studies teachers' understandings of global awareness and global education
<p>Although global history has been a part of the discipline of social studies in New York State for a number of years, the inclusion of global education and skills has been less prevalent in the discipline. This lack of global perspectives in education has proven to be detrimental to the global …
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False Universalism of Global Governance Theories: Global Constitutionalism, Global Administrative Law, International Criminal Institutions and the Global South
Why are theories of global governance unsatisfactory? Why are theories of global governance unable to integrate the lived realities of the people of the global South? International law and its institutions are growing at an unprecedented speed and this expansion has captured the curiosity of …
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A Global Pedagogical Method to Global Citizenship
… development program define components of global citizenship, integrate them into their teaching practices, and detect its presence. This qualitative study interviewed 20 educators (after reaching saturation) either in-person or through videoconferencing methods. Transcriptions were …
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Global Discontents
… toys as means to express economic issues of globalization. By exploiting the educational and imaginative aspects of toys for adults and children, I intend to reflect on the impact and pressures of globalization on employment, technology and environment. In creating these toys I hope to make a …
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Global Citizenship Education: Secondary Teachers’ Perceptions Of Global Education
… system to evolve. A focus on developing global citizens who can demonstrate 21st century skills will help educators who want to prepare their students to enter the world. This transcendental phenomenological study examined the lived experiences of current secondary educators who make …
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Global Governance for Global Goals: Private Market Standardization via the UN Global Compact and ISO 9001 Diffusion
Firms contribute to global governance and may influence global goals through private market standardization. Public-private partnerships and institutions formalize how such standardization, as a mode of the rule of law, underpins global value chains within and across borders. Local socio-political, …
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The global integration challenge : global management teams, temporal differences, and constructing the identity of the global 'other'
… I investigate the challenges of 21st century global integration by examining it indepth at a Fortune 200 global supplier (CC) that faces strong pressures of both global integration and local responsiveness. While global integration is typically discussed at a macro level, here I use …
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Governing Global Migration
This study explores the global regulative function of migration politics. Its main aim is to rethink migration politics through an engagement with the Foucauldian governmentality perspective, which focuses on the relation between government and thought. A secondary aim is to use this perspective to …
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Global Groundwater Risk
Global groundwater is a critical yet often overlooked component of the Earth system, supporting human well-being, ecosystems, and economic development. However, increasing groundwater withdrawal and climate-driven changes in recharge are intensifying groundwater stress worldwide. While this …
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Global Knowledge Network
The convergence of Digital Economy, Globalization, and Knowledge-based Economy, creates the potential for Global Knowledge Networks and e-Knowledge Commerce. "The e-knowledge markets will grow to be a $1 trillion global micro-economy by 2010," estimated by Kaieteur Institute For Knowledge …
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Global dynamic optimization
… method is rigorously shown to converge to the global solution in a finite time. An implementation is developed, and via a collection of case studies, the technique is shown to be very efficient in computing the global solutions. For problems with embedded nonlinear dynamic systems, the analysis …
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Small islands and global action: Coming of age in global change
This study aims at advancing theoretical understanding of the role of small island developing states (SIDS) in contemporary international relations (IR). It does this by examining their interaction between, participation in, and contribution to, IR within the framework of the UN. The literature on …
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Developing global perspectives: global citizenship and sustainable development within higher education.
… education practice by exploring the salience of global perspectives, global citizenship and sustainable development, starting at the level of curriculum and pedagogy, escalating to encompass the development of an institutional-wide model and the concept of the ‘Global University’ and then …
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The global financial crisis and its implications for global financial governance
This thesis explores how the global financial crisis (GFC) has impacted on the distribution of power within the international financial architecture (IFA). In order for us to be able to study the effects of economic power there must be some way in which we measure it or identify its presence. …
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Global delivery of IT services : looking beyond the global delivery model
… that create competitive advantage through global delivery of IT services. Research on this thesis consists of a review of IT services markets and globally distributed operating models for IT services. A simple framework is created to analyze global delivery models (GDM) used by IT services …
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BUILDING A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE AT HOME: A STUDY OF THE ACQUISITION OF A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE BY STUDENTS OF GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING
… with students at partner institutions globally. This research is using the Global Perspective Inventory (GPI), a measurement of global perspective acquisition, on students who enroll in GU at ECU. There are n=211 usable data points in the secondary data collected by the GU program. …
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Nurturing global leaders: The influence of global education culture at international house
… of international and Canadian students. With global education programming that focuses on leadership through community building, I-House creates opportunities for new leaders to emerge in a culturally complex environment that is thought to foster global leadership development. Eighteen I-House …
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Global Design and its Ethical Implications: An Interpretative Analysis of Global Images
Global design is a recent phenomenon that can be understood as design targeted at a global audience, which aims to be exhibited to and consumed by different cultures. Hence, a key question in this study is: how can graphic designers globalise graphic design in an ethical manner without giving rise …
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Global fantasies and heartland realities: Making a global city in the Midwest
In an era where globalization and its desires have a strong pull on many local economies, this research project examines how immigrant CBOs’ claim citizenship and establish belonging within the context of neoliberal multiculturalism. Indianapolis is a new destination for immigrants in the Midwest …
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