Shared Futures: Global Learning and Social Responsibility
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On January 31, 2012, Caryn McTighe Musil, AAC&U senior vice president, facilitated an online conversation about the Global Learning Inventory Framework—A Smart Grid for Global Learning for NAFSA's Live Collegial Conversation - Mapping Global Learning on Your Campus: A Smart Grid to Assess Assets and Gaps. Review the conversation here to learn more about the goals, impact, and implementation methods of the Smart Grid.
Overview
Shared Futures: Global Learning and Social Responsibility is a multi-project, national initiative of AAC&U. The initiative was built on the assumption that we live in an interdependent but unequal world and that higher education can prepare students to not only thrive in such a world, but to creatively and responsibly remedy its inequities and problems. A quality liberal education in the 21st century provides students with opportunities to work collaboratively, to examine the world’s human and natural systems from multiple perspectives, and to integrate learning across the curriculum by following the threads in an increasingly complex reality. Such an education—often referred to as global learning— intentionally wrestles with questions of diversity, identity, citizenship, democracy, power, privilege, sustainability, and ethical action.
By building a network of educators dedicated to this integrative work, Shared Futures facilitates curricular change and faculty development on campuses nationwide. It is the goal of the Shared Futures inititive that these networks of educatiors lead to collaboration on course design and pedagogy, shared strategies for curricular renewal and globalization of general education, and a fluid, decentralized exchange of resources that opens new opportunities for partnership and learning. In addition to our projects and an online social network, we offer Tools for Educators that include practical campus examples, formative publications, and assessment tools such as A Smart Grid for Global Learning and the General Education for Shared Futures survey.
Current Activities
AAC&U's lastest Shared Futures project, General Education for a Global Century, is funded with a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. The project seeks to build the capacity of colleges and universities to prepare today’s college students to grapple with big global challenges and thrive in a globalized economy as socially responsible and engaged citizens and workers. .
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