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Project Zero’s Boix Mansilla Releases Book on Global Competence

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04/26/2011 12:08 PM
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Project Zero Principal Investigator is celebrating the release of her new book, Educating for Global Competence: Preparing our Youth to Engage. Coauthored with , the book addresses what global competence looks like and how educators can best prepare students to be effective citizens in an increasingly interdependent world. Specifically, Boix Mansilla and Jackson explore global competence as defined by a recent collaboration between the Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO).

The book will be formally released at a special event this Wednesday, April 27, 2011 hosted by CCSSO, the Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning, and the Smithsonian. It will take place at the American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery and will feature a discussion with the authors about educating students for global competence.

Verónica Boix Mansilla is the chair of the Future of Learning Institute at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Project at Harvard , the founder of the Latin American Initiative for Understanding and Development (Latitud), and a Fellow at the Asia Society. She has taught at both the Harvard Graduate School of Education and at the University of Buenos Aires, and serves as an advisor to the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), International Baccalaureate, and the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Her most recent work focuses on the development and nurture of an informed global consciousness.

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  • susan k. wilson

    This book looks great, I can’t wait until it comes out. Global competence to me means the ability to engage in an ever growing world and make meaning with both intrapersonally and interpersonally intelligent people in the world around us. It means learning to understand the ever changing global economy and world without harming it. Sounds like a great book.

  • Joanne Grady Huskey

    In the wake of the death of Osamam bin Laden, the lesson our nation and every citizen must learn is that we all need to be more globally conscious, informed and sensitive and act in counterpoint to the fear and terror that he propogated by understanding each other across cultural divides and by learning how to live and work collaboratively. There is no more important work than that of global education and global competence for our youth and for all of us. I can’t wait to see this book and to learn what Project Zero is doing.

  • Puay Yin Lim

    Congratulations! A book on educating for global competence, what a timely thing! Young people today travel widely, and even without traveling, the world comes to you wherever you live, and there’s also the virtual world to which many young people I know are constantly attached to, through their smartphones and ipads. Being competent in an increasingly globalised world will be increasingly important to nurture a generation sensitive to the cultures and beliefs of others. It appears to me that a large part of the learning has to take place outside of the classroom, and perhaps even overseas. I certainly hope more philanthropic organisations will step in to make it possible for more youth to learn to be globally competent.

  • Ann Lynch

    Having attended two Future of Learning Institutes and experienced first hand Veronica Box Mansilla I am very anxious to read her latest book. Because I admired her respectful, vivid and inspiring manner I am confident that her new book will help me and my work with undergraduates in developing their global competence.

  • Isabel Barca

    Congratulations from Portugal for this book which seems to be very inspiring in what a renovated social consciousness is concerned. I’m eager to order and read it!

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