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Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Online master's degree gives teachers the tools to think globally - Craig Chamberlain, University of Illinois
All education is global. At least that’s the perspective of a new online master’s degree program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The new “Global Studies in Education” program, near the end of its first semester, aims to give educators resources and skills for teaching in an age of “global interconnectivity,” says education professor Fazal Rizvi, the program’s director. Rizvi, whose family heritage is Iranian, was born and raised in India, educated in England, and spent most of his academic career in Australia. He has been studying global issues related to education for more than a decade.... Diversity within the groups is “absolutely central to the program,” Rizvi said. That means diversity in experience, family background, subjects they teach, where they teach, etc. He hopes future classes also will include teachers from other countries. “We’re hoping that students will teach each other much more than we’ll teach them,” he said.
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