US: Global Competence: Where Do World Languages Fit In?

Francis Hult francis.hult at utsa.edu
Fri Jun 25 15:55:32 UTC 2010


National Capital Language Resource Center

 

Global Competence: Where Do World Languages Fit In?

 

by Michele Anciaux Aoki, Ph.D., World Languages Program Supervisor, Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. Member of the CCSSO Global Competence Workgroup and member of Partnership for Global Learning.

 

Over the past decade, a number of leaders in business, education, government, and the non-profit sector have come together to articulate a vision for global education in our country. Much of the impetus for this new-found focus on internationalizing curriculum and preparing students P-20 (preschool to graduate school) for today's interconnected world has come from funding and advocacy efforts of the Asia Society and the Longview Foundation, beginning with the first States Institute on International Education in 2002 and currently supported by the Partnership for Global Learning, established in 2008. 

 

Full story:

http://nclrc.org/about_teaching/topics/feature.html

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