Laurence Peters
Global Educator
Dr Laurence Peters
Dr Laurence Peters, author, speaker and Global Educator who teaches Global Education Policy at Johns Hopkins University has just produced his latest and best work--Creating the Global Classroom see below for details
Reviews
"A must read for educators seeking to help students shape their common destiny."
Dr. Anthony Jackson, Asia Society
"Laurence Peters’ book ‘Creating the Global Classroom’ is a refreshing invitation to think anew and with clarity about the education of global citizens. This book helps us understand the dangers of the ‘single story’ in making sense of difference and of our world and our own place in it, including the ‘single stories’ of global education. Every teacher should read this book."
Fernando M. Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice of International Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Creating the Global Classroom examines how to begin to think like a global educator first by examining how our own histories and experiences have formed our own cultural and professional identities and second how the varied frames by which global education can be understood – pedagogical, ideological and cosmopolitan – have shaped the field.
Integrating global perspectives within a crowded curriculum is a tough challenge, but Dr Peters provides practical guidance as to how to place a global world view at the center of your teaching, including a sample lesson plans, resources and helpful examples and entry points
Most popular histories see the UN as a 20th century invention created in the shadow of the Second World War, but the roots of the international body can be traced back to much earlier sources. The UN is based on at least two large ethical beliefs, that peace is better than war and that all human beings have equal rights. Both beliefs are enshrined in its two founding documents, the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This book tells the story of how both documents came to be and explains why the UN today is interested not just in resolving conflicts but in shaping a more just world. It traces the way that a group of globally minded thinkers across the ages, often working in isolation and dismissed as utopian thinkers, reworked long traditions of ethical and religious thought to devise structures and norms that world leaders would embrace. As a result of an energetic debate that thinkers such as Kant, Rousseau, and Penn helped spark, the idea of an international body to preserve world peace came to be taken seriously not only by world leaders but also by a more widely literate public. Published on the 70th anniversary of the UN's founding, this book makes clear that the UN represents a product of our complicated dialogue with world history. (
Global Education: Using Technology to Bring the World to Your Students
"Global education" means an attempt to review education as a way to reemphasize human and citizenship values in education. This noble redesign doesn't replace learning right, rather it implies that learning well includes good human formation. It remembers that education cannot be simply a market driven proposal. Good use of new media can obviously help a lot this intention, since some virtual platforms permit doing assignments together, multi culturally speaking."
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Scaling Up Success : Lessons Learned from Technology-Based Educational Improvement
Scaling Up Success tackles one of the greatest challenges facing school districts: How do we take successful programs and best practices serving a few classrooms or students and scale them up to serve schools throughout the district? Using innovations in technology as an example, the essays take a thoughtful and well-documented look at the issues facing districts and the ways in which scaling up can be accomplished. This book brings together some of the best education authors and researchers and provides a compelling study on how districts can scale up technology-based educational innovations as well as for how any innovation or policy might be spread to every student and school."
--Thomas W. Payzant, superintendent, Boston Public Schools
"A thoughtful and important update on the power and potential of information technology in education, and a must-read for anyone wondering if the computer revolution can and should make it to our nation’s classroom."
--Michael J. Feuer, executive director, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, The National Academics
"Scaling Up Success offers two important benefits. First, the authors provide very useful and interesting examples of technology-based innovations. Second, the authors’ discussions of the challenges involved in taking improvements to scale have relevance beyond technology."
--Susan Fuhrman, dean, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
"Scaling Up Success includes an impressive array of authors in one volume and provides key lessons learned on the reform scale up process, and on the transfer technological innovations in particular."
--Amanda Datnow, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California
Laurence's bio
Author of the must read introduction to global education-Creating the Global Classroom,,
Dr Peters Bio