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Permalink Reply by Tim Kubik on February 3, 2012 at 4:57pm

Agree this is tricky, and I don't like the UN's official position on this.  Still, the Maastricht Declaration of 2002 is a good place to start.  http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/nscentre/ge/GE-Guidelines/GEgs-app1.pdf

Tim

Permalink Reply by Marina Bonser, PhD on February 4, 2012 at 2:08am

Thank you, Tim! Would you mind to give a brief description of the UN's official position on this matter, and put the link where everyone can see that? I think many educators would appreciate it.

Marina.

Permalink Reply by Daisy Whisenant on February 4, 2012 at 5:43pm

I'm delighted to see the thought that is going into the Global Education Collaborative and Conference!

These titles you suggested, Marina, are clarifying and would make great categories within the larger picture. In leaving the main title quite general, it allows us to address a wonderful variety of ideas as categories and sub-categories . We can continue to focus on specific categories and sub-categories, such as "Global Awareness," "Gobal Citizenship," and "Global Sustainability" as needed or desired. Could "Global Systems Thinking" also be a large category?

As for as an authority on the subject of global education, I see the Global Education Collaborative as beginning to take on the role as the "go-to" authority on global ed and will utilize such sites as the one Tim Kubik suggests.

Daisy

Permalink Reply by Marina Bonser, PhD on February 6, 2012 at 10:57am

Thank you, Daisy! I am glad you understand me. Global Education and Sustainable Development are rapidly growing fields, that's why we need to specify terminology and make it up to date. Clarifying terminology makes sense only if educational communities would agree to use the same terms, that's why we need an authority for educational leadership at the international level. 

These are connections between suggested terms:

"Global Education" includes any kind of international education with connections across the planet;

"Global Sustainability Education" is a sub category of "Global Education", and  focuses on Global Citizenship, Global Awareness, Global Competency, Global Thinking. (Relations  between some of those categories can be found on my website www.GlobalThinkingWorld.net )

"GlobalThinking" will include "Global Systems Thinking" as a functional aspect for solving global problems, and "Global Ethics" or "Global Sustainability Philosophy" as a motivational aspect.

Global Education Collaborative is a wonderful website, it is definitely a great way for the educators all over the world to get know about my suggestions and express their opinions on them. Only I am not sure who is actually can take responsibility for creating educational policies at the international level most of the people around the world would agree on. I am still not sure who I should contact on this matter. If anyone has an idea, please let me know.

Marina.