What Students Know About Their World
| Autor: | Thomas S. Barrows, John L. D. Clark, Stephen F. Klein |
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| Rok vydání: | 1980 |
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| Zdroj: | Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning. 12:10-67 |
| ISSN: | 1939-9146 0009-1383 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00091383.1980.10569733 |
| Popis: | Students graduating from American colleges in 1980 live in a world whose people and institutions are increasingly interdependent. Are these educated citizens prepared to understand the interactions of nations in an interdependent world? Do they apprehend world problems from a universal and multidisciplinary point of view, and can they appreciate the immense complexity of both the causes and effects of these issues? Do they perceive the extent to which individual lives, including their own, are affected by global or international conditions, and do historical perspectives guide their understanding? Several years ago the Educational Testing Service conducted a major survey of fourth, eighth, and twelfth graders' knowledge and attitudes about other peoples and other nations. (Lewis W. Pike and Thomas S. Barrows, Other Nations, Other Peoples: A Survey of Student Interests, Knowledge, and Perceptions, HEW Publication No. 78-19004, Washington, D.C., GPO 1979.) The results proved generally disconcerting to educators and social observers alike. The majority of the students had a surprisingly limited understanding of other countries. But would college students understand their world any better, given their exposure to more advanced training and education? Until recently, answers to this question have been based largely on hearsay and anecdotal information. But now we have some solid |
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