“Learning to know learning to do learning to be learning to live together’” quoted by Quist (2005)
Firstly, and most importantly ,Quist (2005) highlights having a good set of values and foundation within which an education can operate on, we can therefore; build a language of International Education.
Imagine a global branded product “just like soft drinks” its quality, taste, image and logo which is standardized throughout the world. That is IB! It is a true educational system that is internationally standardized, monitored and reliable. However , there are down falls in IB and challenged that over seek this “it is perceived as a distinctives cultural program” that can be seen as a threat to other different national identities.
Think long and hard about what you would like our students to become…international mindedness,? Global citizen? self-reflectors ? great citizens? multinational, multilingual, multicultural? Interdependence ? risk takers? Communicators? Welcome to the IB program “is to develop internationally minded people who ,recognize their common humanity and shared guardianship of the plant ,help to create a better and more peaceful worlds (ref)
After finally understanding what IB entitles, I can therefore, understand what and how teaching should encompass. What the IB offers to the world. Walker (2002) analyses his vision for the future of International Education, that is a system of world class, exclusive hard to influence other educational curriculum yet it’s a curriculum that changes the world. A system that is developed for student around the world which have the initiative to influence national education and its inclusiveness.
Question arises what constitutes education for citizenships in various nations hence, foreseeing the rapid changing of global community and its critics on National and International Educations. The world today is facing a set of challenges such as globalization, homogenization, deterioration in the quality of global environment, rapid changes of technologies and the ‘of same sense or loos of sense of community and shared beliefs in the common good ethical citizen we want to become’. How do we respond to worldwide issues or a as a member of a particular nation state. I can understand the attempts behind International Education and the challenges that asides with it, although; it attempts to combine identity and oneness within the same paradigm. It has one objective and that is to unit different cultures & identities through common global goals and belief will continue to strive for international mindedness.
My question in regards to my vision of IE is how can the discourse of International Education truly reflect the needs and the wants of the majority instead of only those of a privilege elite¡
I will leave with a quote (Bryan 1997) “to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange and to act on that change of perspective.”
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