BÚSQUEDA DE ÁRTICULO SOBRE CURRICULUM GLOBALIZADO EN INGLÉS, TRADUCCIÓN Y BREVE RESEÑA.

Yunaida Mohamed Mohand

INTERNATIONALIZING THE CURRICULUM:
IMPROVING LEARNING THROUGH INTERNATIONAL
EDUCATION: PREPARING STUDENTS FOR SUCCESS
IN A GLOBAL SOCIETY

Stephen H. Guerin

In the expanded and updated version of The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century( Friedman, 2006), Thomas Friedman congently describes the promise and peril of and economic and geopolitical future shaped by the forces of globalitazion wrought by technologically driven global connectivity, international commerce, and cross-cultural competition. A related development is a sharp increase in the degree and …ver más…

According to the infusion of international modules, especially in consortia of community colleges dedicated to enhancing international education.

The best practices review also revealed that infusing international content into existing curriculum through international modules presents a viable, cost effective method because it obviates obstacles and limitations inherent in the creation, approval, and implementation of new courses of purely international focus. Moreover, simply adding a stand alone international course would still miss the majority of students as such a course would be an elective and, thus, probably bypassed by most students. In the MSCC QEP, courses to be internationalized via the infusion of an international module will be identified on a voluntary basis by faculty with interest in this initiative. Faculty may choose to adopt, adapt, or create an entirely new international expertise, respect for academic freedom, and preservation of faculty stewardship of the curriculum. One to three internationalized courses will be introduced each academic year with the intent that, over the five-year perio of the QEP, at least 15 courses will be infused with substantial international content. The QEP specifies the standard of quality for each international module and the reQuisite hierarchy of authority for the approval of a moduLe before infusion into a course. Funding for the QEP will come from a new $5