It’s Time to Scale Up Global Education: A Chat with Laurence Peters

We have on Laurence Peters (JD, MA), a current teacher at Johns Hopkins, to chat with him about his new book published by Routledge in 2022, Creating the Global Classroom: Approaches to Developing the Next Generation of World Savvy Students. Peters explains how to integrate global education ideas, projects, and perspectives throughout K-12 education and the varied ways in which global education can be understood. He believes global education must be an aspect of everything learners do today; only then can we build up sufficient global awareness in our youth to impact the world in profound and transformative ways. During this session, he provides a roadmap that can be used to overcome the myriad challenges and issues in global education today, including dealing with an already jam-packed curriculum. With this map at the ready, educators will discover a few well marked routes (and some not so well marked) for cultivating global awareness and skills related to perspective taking, empathy, and critical thinking. Whether you are working with primary or secondary students or perhaps in higher education or corporate settings, this session is a must see/view. Given the world conflicts seen during just the past few years, it is evident that thinking globally is no longer a curriculum supplement or “nice to have” feature if time allows; instead, it is an urgent calling because it’s time to act. Think global, act local.

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