Development and implementation of a teacher education program that promotes a global perspective is necessary. The Global Awareness Program at Florida International University trains teachers and other educators, helps schools and colleges develop programs for pupils and teachers, and stimulates public awareness. Course offerings and other facets…

Global education is education designed to cultivate a world view and to develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to live effectively in a culturally diverse world characterized by increasing economic and social interdependency. Social studies teachers should assume a key role in introducing a global perspective to the curriculum. (JN)

Discusses certain complexities of personal transformation among people implementing African and African American curriculum content reform in the Buffalo (New York) public schools, highlighting individual teachers' understanding of and responses to the reform and noting that attitudes about their own and other people's ethnicity proved important…