International Mindedness

International Mindedness

“A properly educated child is internationally minded, a global citizen, specially wired for international understanding and fashioned global peace.” Adeleke A. Paul

To prepare students to live in today’s interdependent world, teachers and educational administrators must weave international mindedness into the fabric of their school’s standards, instruction, climate, and assessment. Children and young adults must be given a broad and balanced education in order to fit well into the present day global village.

Some people advocate an international approach to schooling because they recognize that the economic and social world is changing. Students currently in school may, in the future, work for companies run from entirely different continents, owned and managed by people from different cultures. These young people are likely to experience their career not as a job-for-life but as a portfolio of jobs. Many of them will work in several different countries from cultures, with colleagues scattered across the globe.

Others advocate an international approach in response to the many difficulties that the world is going through, including the threat of international terrorism, the rise of racially biased right-wing political parties throughout Europe, and the degradation of the environment caused by our lack of awareness of impact of our actions. For these people, internationally minded education holds out the best hope for eradicating fear and suspicion and achieving peace, tolerance and global cooperation.

A third group is neither economically or environmentally, nor socially driven. These advocates believe that now, more than ever, international issues are an important part of modern life. International understanding should be included in the curriculum because it is, quite simply, a subject worthy of study.

However, Quickedge consulting is well positioned to give quality suggestions and practical steps, which could help to transform your school from national or standard school to the status of being international. We can equally help to train your staff to be internationally minded, through seminar/workshop. We strongly believe that internationally minded teachers /staff will surely produce internationally minded children.

What does it mean to be internationally minded and how do we promote it in our schools? Please air your view and contribute to this article.

Have a pleasant week

Paul Adeoye Adeleke