About the Chapter:
This chapter takes as its focus the history, theory, and practice of global education in America. Of particular interest are the challenges faced in community colleges and gateway courses. Specifically, the article highlights the author’s use of campus resources to design and implement a problem-based learning project that raised student awareness of the global refugee crisis and asked them to both evaluate current solutions and create their own. The chapter details the impetus, design, and layout of the project, and it provides reflections from the professor and students on the ways in which the project facilitated students’ experiences with global education.
About the Author:
Danny Sexton, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, CUNY. His fields of study and research are Victorian literature and culture, postcolonial literature, science fiction, gender and sexuality, masculinity, and race. He has presented at numerous conferences and published articles on race, gender, and Victorian and postcolonial literature. Three principles guide his teaching philosophy: (1) teaching “up” to students; (2) changing the way students think; and (3) creating an atmosphere of respect that honors the various cultural and ethnic backgrounds of his students.
Tabitha Dell’ Angelo, “Creating Classrooms for Social Justice”
Oxfam UK, “What is Global Citizenship?”
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, “Figures at a Glance”
Frontline, “Children of Syria”