Inform
The Global Thinking team offers fresh perspectives on learning from our long experience in diverse local and global contexts.
Inspire
We provide advice and training, resources and research to bring insight, challenge perceptions and enable creative thinking for 21st Century learning.
Innovate
We work in partnership with clients and education specialists on practical and innovative approaches for differing teaching and learning needs.
Global Thinking provides inspiration and innovation in global learning.
Our specialist team provides training and consultancy to educators who enable young people to shape their futures in a fair and sustainable world. Education
The term was increasingly applied to initiatives in international education and was advanced by Stuart Grauer in his 1989 University of San Diego publication, Think Globally, Act Locally: A Delphi Study of Educational Leadership Through the Development of International Resources in the Local Community. In this publication it was attribed to Harlan Cleveland.[15] It is said that this term was used by German-American sociologist Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy[citation needed] in the 1950s or earlier, prior to the formation of the United Nations Organization.
It is not only corporations that are acknowledging the importance of environmental issues, but also the education system. Government officials and school boards across the world are beginning to develop a new way of teaching. Globalization is now thought of as an important concept to understanding the world. Certain schools believe it is important to discuss global issues as young as 5 years old. It is students who are our future, therefore understanding the concept of "think globally, act locally" is fundamental to our future.[16]
Definition
"Think globally, act locally" urges people to consider the health of the entire planet and to take action in their own communities and cities. Long before