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Effects of Instruction on Teachers' Global Mindedness and Patriotism
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The authors found that students who took the course became more favorable toward global mindedness and world order, and became less favorable toward the nationcentric perspective, while the experimental group's attitude toward patriotism was unaffected.Abstract:
In 1981, NCSS adopted a resolution supporting the teaching of global education. In this study, pre and posttreatment standardized attitude scales were administered to graduate education students taking a course about global education, and to a suitable control group. Students who took the global education course became more favorable toward global mindedness and world order. They became less favorable toward the nationcentric perspective. The experimental group's attitude toward patriotism was unaffected.read more
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The Effect of Personal Cultural Orientation on Consumer Ethnocentrism
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Americans’ Choice of Domestic over Foreign Products
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Preparing American Secondary Social Studies Teachers to Teach with a Global Perspective: A Status Report
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identified 30 challenges that hinders the ability of teachers to develop global perspectives in their global perspectives, and identified 30 of them as the main obstacles to teacher preparation.
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The Status of the Social Studies in the Public Schools of the United States: Facts and Impressions of a National Survey.
TL;DR: In this paper, state departments of education were surveyed to determine the status of social studies in the United States and found that there is a declining enrollment in social studies; a lack of interest in teaching social studies at elementary schools; a relaxation of state and local requirements in the teaching of social education; and an increase in teacher creativeness.
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