Global intelligence and human development : toward an ecology of global learning / Mihai I. Spariosu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spariosu, Mihai.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International education.

Education and globalization.

Multicultural education.

Physical Description:

287 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2004]

Summary:

Increasing concerns about the future of humankind that arise from threats of terrorism, nuclear war, and environmental destruction dramatize the fact that we must begin working collectively to change our ways of interacting with one another and with our habitat. In Global Intelligence and Human Development Mihai Spariosu argues that the best way to bring about this change is through education. We need, he says, to create learning environments that help us to develop a "global mindset." Spariosu presents a new conceptual framework for dealing with globalization from an intercultural perspective and outlines an innovative model of learning based on an ethics of global intelligence, which he defines as the ability to understand and work toward what will benefit all life on earth. This kind of understanding, he argues, can emerge only from ongoing intercultural dialogue and cooperation. He identifies the problems that pervade today's education system and then proposes concrete ways to begin moving toward global intelligence, outlining a new field of studies, intercultural knowledge management, that would encourage intercultural and transdisciplinary dialogue and teamwork.

Contents:

Introduction: What Is Global Intelligence? 1

I Cultural Theories and Practices of Globalization in Social Science 23

1 Globalization and Contemporary Social Science: An Intercultural Approach 25

2 Intercultural Studies: A Local-Global Perspective 57

II An Intercultural Ecology of Science 79

3 Intercultural Dimensions of Natural Science 81

4 Buddhist, Taoist, and Sufi Views of the Web of Life: An Intercultural Comparison 113

5 Toward an Ecology of Ecology 137

III Global Learning and Human Development 163

6 A Paradigmatic History of the University: Past, Present, and Future 165

7 Creating Local-Global Learning Environments for Human Development 199

Appendix The Intercultural Knowledge Management Program: A Pilot Project in Global Learning and Leadership 219.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-277) and index.

ISBN:

026269316X

0262195119

OCLC:

54775726