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From Dr. Charles A.Tesconi, Jr.
The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. observed: "…through our scientific genius we have made of the world a neighborhood; now through our moral and spiritual genius we must make of it a brotherhood." It seems, though, that we are farther from realizing King’s vision today than when he spoke those words a half century ago....Read more.
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- Pursue professional careers in international development education, international exchange and study abroad, or global education.
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ITEP Spotlight
Center for Global Peace: Global Partnerships
Over the last year, ITEP has developed a close working relationship with the Center for Global Peace at American University. Drawing on faculty and students from across the university, the Center for Global Peace is committed to innovation in scholarship, teaching, policy analysis, and community service in such areas as international conflict resolution, peace building and non-violence, Intra-Islamic Dialogue, and peace education and diplomacy. Currently, Lynn Cohen, Associate Director of ITEP; Tara Kaiser, a first-year ITEP graduate student; and Carol O'Leary, Center for Global Peace Director, are conducting research into youth education and civil society. They plan to complete a guidebook on the topic for use by scholars and practitioners in the near future.
Elizabeth A. Anderson: Moldova Research 2008
Contested Curriculum: Moldovan Teachers’ Responses to Integrated History
National history textbooks are controversial in post-Soviet Moldova, where the government and the intellectual elite have differing concepts of the nation and national identity (Casu 2005; King 2000). On September 1, 2006, the Ministry of Education replaced the existing national history curriculum, History of the Romanians, with a new one, Integrated History. The latter, developed under guidance from the Council of Europe, presents national history in the context of a larger world history. This new curriculum, which also encompasses civic education, was implemented by the government without the support of prominent historians. Since it was first proposed in 2003, it has met public resistance, skepticism, and fierce criticism from university professors, journalists, and historians. Critics accuse the new curriculum of glorifying Soviet achievements and denying citizens’ ethnic Romanian identity. Proponents defend the new curriculum because it fosters multiculturalism by including the histories of national minorities and promotes citizenship (Anderson 2005; van der Leeuw-Roord 2002). Dr, Anderson's 2008 project aimed to examine teachers’ responses to Integrated History after its first two years of implementation, building on a prior study tracing curriculum development since 2003.
