Abstract
Global learning and global citizenship education (GCE) continue to be integrated as co-curricular and curricular components in US higher education. Many institutions have linked their mission and values statements to global learning. However, their efforts fail to reflect a single shared understanding or philosophy of global learning or GCE. While scholars continue to discuss and debate the substance of these frameworks, few studies have analyzed perspectives of curricular global learning and GCE requirements. Three hundred fifty-four undergraduate students attending a university in the Southern US completed questionnaires assessing their attitudes towards global learning, international issues, and global citizenship, as well as their attitudes toward the college’s required global perspectives curriculum. Results indicate that students feel generally positive towards global learning and issues, believe global learning should be required at this and other institutions, and have high perceptions of faculty performance.
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Butler, Scott M. and Reinke, Amanda
(2020)
"Global Perspectives in the Core: Student Attitudes and Instructor Performance,"
International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning:
Vol. 14:
No.
1, Article 4.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.20429/ijsotl.2020.140104
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