Document Type
Issue Area Three
Abstract
Access to the world provided by communication networks and information technology will enable teachers to enrich existing curriculum. Textbooks and special units can be readily updated with new findings and augmented with visual and auditory information from the libraries and museums of the world. Comparative studies of communities will be possible: one culture's view can be compared to that of another with respect to given phenomena, the diarist's account of an event can be juxtaposed with the historian's who has the benefit of time and a larger repository of information. To the extent that we can excite and involve students earlier in the learning process and enrich the content of the curriculum, we can look forward to a higher degree of learner involvement in knowledge acquisition and the development of critical thought processes. In the short run, we can improve what we have been doing well and the outcomes will be better. We can also fulfill some objectives concerning other cultures that to date have been weak to nonexistent because we will now have first hand access to information for constructing curriculum.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
5
Issue
3
First Page
68
Last Page
71
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1995 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Staley, Sally C.
(1995)
"American Citizen: World Community Member,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 5:
No.
3, Article 25.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol5/iss3/25
