Global Curriculum Development: How to Redesign U.S. Higher Education for the Twenty-First Century

Higher education can empower students as agents of social transformation by adopting a new educational model that focuses on key challenges and competencies of complexity resilience, building action-oriented partnerships across cultural, disciplinary,generational, and institutional boundaries.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 260 pages
Publication date: 15 December 2021
Publisher: Transcript Verlag

Linn Friedrichs delves into the intricate relationship between John Dewey's educational theory, current research on globalization, and inclusive curriculum design approaches to craft a novel educational model for our era of complexity, crisis, and innovation. By drawing insights from NYU's pioneering efforts to globalize its research, pedagogy, and social impact, she presents a comprehensive framework for a new curricular core that is centered around the critical challenges of our time and the competencies required for resilience in the face of complexity. This transformative core serves as the cornerstone for collaborative endeavors that transcend cultural, disciplinary, generational, and institutional boundaries, fostering meaningful action and driving positive social transformations.

Linn Friedrichs explores the nexus of John Dewey's educational philosophy, contemporary research on globalization, and inclusive curriculum design to propose a groundbreaking educational model for our era of complexity, crisis, and innovation. Drawing upon NYU's pioneering endeavors to globalize its research, pedagogy, and social impact, she presents a comprehensive framework for a new curricular core that is centered around the critical challenges of our time and the competencies necessary for resilience in the face of complexity. This transformative core serves as the foundation for collaborative endeavors that transcend cultural, disciplinary, generational, and institutional boundaries, fostering meaningful action and driving positive social transformations.

Linn Friedrichs examines the interplay between John Dewey's educational theory, current research on globalization, and inclusive curriculum design to develop a novel educational framework for our era of complexity, crisis, and innovation. By drawing insights from NYU's pioneering efforts to globalize its research, pedagogy, and social impact, she presents a comprehensive framework for a new curricular core that is centered around the critical challenges of our time and the competencies required for resilience in the face of complexity. This transformative core serves as the foundation for collaborative endeavors that transcend cultural, disciplinary, generational, and institutional boundaries, fostering meaningful action and driving positive social transformations.

Dimension: 23 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783837660234