EDTE 2500 - Issues in Global Education

• Students will be able to articulate insights about one’s own cultural rules and biases based on a sense of belonging to a common humanity, shared values and responsibilities, and human rights.
• Students will be able to analyze the complexity and interconnectedness of elements important to members of another culture in relation to its history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices.
• Students will be able to interpret intercultural experience from their own and others’ worldview and to act in a supportive manner that recognizes feelings, solidarity and respect for differences and diversity of another cultural group.
• Students will be able to investigate cultural differences in verbal and non-verbal communication and negotiate a shared understanding of global and educational issues based on those differences.
• Students will be able to ask complex questions of other cultures and to articulate answers to these questions that reflect multiple cultural perspectives toward a more peaceful and sustainable world.
• Students will be able to initiate and develop interactions with culturally different others while suspending judgment in valuing his / her interactions with culturally diverse people..