GSF Research
As part of its mission, the Global Studies Foundation sponsors and conducts scientific research on topics concerning international education. GSF research is theoretically informed, empirically based, methodologically sound, and policy relevant.
At the center of the Foundation's current research agenda are questions about what American students know about the world outside of the United States, how they are learning and are taught this information, what knowledge and skills they should possess, and how we can best prepare them for the challenges and opportunities ahead.
At present, these concerns have been distilled into two major projects:
- Examining the state of global studies in the United States, especially at the secondary and college levels, and comparing these findings with those from other countries;
- Defining "Global Literacy" — the knowledge, skills, and perspectives that would best prepare young Americans for the complex challenges of our emergent, global era.
A preliminary report from the first project was presented at a national conference in Washington and now is available online as a PDF file. Entitled Struggling to Grasp a Moving Target, this report has been revised and published as GSF Working Paper 1, inaugurating the GSF Working Paper Series, which will be available online and in printed form. Both the revised paper and the accompanying PowerPoint presentation are available on our Publications page.
A second working paper on the importance and components of "global literacy," derived from GSF's related survey and conference, is in process and will be published shortly.
For more information about this series, our current projects, our future research plans, or opportunities to conduct or publish related research with GSF, please submit our online information form or contact us directly.
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