Worldwise Learning: A Teacher′s Guide to Shaping a Just, Sustainable Future

by Carla Marschall, Elizabeth O. Crawford

Create inclusive, democratic classrooms that prepare knowledgeable, compassionate, and engaged global citizens. Today’s global challenges―climate change, food and water insecurity, social and economic inequality, and a global pandemic―demand that educators prepare students to become compassionate, critical thinkers who can explore alternative futures. Their own, others’, and the planet’s well-being depend on it. Worldwise Learning  presents a “Pedagogy for People, Planet, and Prosperity” that supports K-8 educators in nurturing “Worldwise Learners”: students who both deeply understand and purposefully act when learning about global challenges. Coupling theory with practice, this book builds educators’ understanding of how curriculum and meaningful interdisciplinary learning can be organized around local, global, and intercultural issues, and provides a detailed framework for making those issues come alive in the classroom. Richly illustrated, each innovative chapter asserts a transformational approach to teaching and learning following an original three-part inquiry cycle, and Worldwise Learning  turns students into local and global citizens who feel genuine concern for the world around them, living their learning with intention and purpose. The time is now.

360 pages, Paperback

Published October 7, 2021