Rapoport’s social studies education book discusses global-mindedness, interconnected world

Publication Title

Teaching With a Global Perspective: Approaches and Strategies for Secondary Social Studies Teachers

Authors

Jing A. Williams, Bárbara C Cruz, and Anatoli Rapoport

Publisher

National Council for the Social Studies

Publication Date

August 2024

About the Book (from the publisher)

As our world becomes increasingly connected, global issues become entangled with students’ daily lives. To prepare students as globally aware future leaders, social studies curricula must reflect the reality of these current global challenges. Drawing from theories and frameworks in global social studies education, Jing A. Williams, Bárbara C. Cruz, and Anatoli Rapoport provide practical, cross-curricular methods for secondary social studies teachers to incorporate global education into their daily teaching. Organized by common social studies content areas, each chapter identifies topics that support global mindedness. This book also includes powerful vignettes based on real classroom interactions and innovative, classroom-tested teaching approaches and strategies that engage students in activities that hold personal meaning for them. Benefitting educators at all levels, Teaching With a Global Perspective: Approaches and Strategies for Secondary Social Studies Teachers encourages educators to cultivate global awareness, challenge their students’ thinking, and support their development as informed citizens in an interconnected world.

About the Author

Dr. Anatoli Rapoport is a professor of social studies education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in Purdue’s College of Education, and program director of the Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellowship at Purdue University. He is interested in citizenship education, particularly in how we teach (or rather, should teach) about global citizenship and other forms of supranational citizenship. Before coming to Purdue, he worked as classroom teacher and school administrator. He has lived and worked in the former Soviet Union and when possible, incorporates his knowledge of education environments of Eastern and Central European countries into his research. He has also organized and coordinated programs for teachers (Partners in Education, Civic Mosaics, Teachers to Teachers, Teaching Excellence and Achievement) and students (Educational Maymester in Russia, Educational Maymester in Northern Europe).