What Does Globally-Minded Mean?
When discussing the idea of global learning and creating globally-minded students, I focused on the cosmopolitanism philosophy that we learned about in our Theory and Research class. The work of Kwame Appiah held a particular interest for me, and I have included some excerpts from his book Cosmopolitanism below. These quotes are what I use to define the term "globally-minded" and guide me in my assessment of students thinking and learning.
The theory of cosmopolitanism as discussed by Kwame Appiah
Quotes from Appiah's book Cosmopolitanism
“Each person you know about and can affect is someone to whom you have responsibilities: to say this is just to affirm the very idea of morality. The challenge then, is to take minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troops and equip them with ideas and institutions that will allow us to live together as the global tribe we have become.”
“One is the idea that we have obligations to others, obligations that stretch beyond those to whom we are related by the ties of kith and kind, or even the more formal ties of a shared citizenship.”
“The one thought that cosmopolitans share is that no local loyalty can ever justify forgetting that each human being has responsibility to every other.”
“One truth we hold to, however, is that every human being has obligations to every other. Everybody matters: that is our central idea.”
“Each person you know about and can affect is someone to whom you have responsibilities: to say this is just to affirm the very idea of morality. The challenge then, is to take minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troops and equip them with ideas and institutions that will allow us to live together as the global tribe we have become.”
“One is the idea that we have obligations to others, obligations that stretch beyond those to whom we are related by the ties of kith and kind, or even the more formal ties of a shared citizenship.”
“The one thought that cosmopolitans share is that no local loyalty can ever justify forgetting that each human being has responsibility to every other.”
“One truth we hold to, however, is that every human being has obligations to every other. Everybody matters: that is our central idea.”
Blog Post: Bringing the world to our students: Using Project Based Learning to implement a cosmopolitan curriculum
The below blog post was written by me during my ECI 524 class about the importance of using PBL to incorporate global thinking (cosmopolitanism) into the curriculum. While PBL is not the focus of my compelling question, the service learning project follows the PBL process.