SPARK Global Learning Information

SPARK Global Learning works with organizations and companies interested in creating innovative teaching tools and professional development opportunities for educators. With expertise in global education and a strong background in international development, SPARK Global Learning consultants are poised to offer niche programming for publishers looking to inspire global thinking and awareness in today's young people. At SPARK Global Learning, we see global education as a lens through which one teaches rather than a separate subject. Practitioners of global education aim to challenge the worldviews of their students and ultimately inspire them to see themselves as active, global citizens. The concept is cross-cutting in that global education can and should form a foundation for all traditional disciplines of teaching. Our understanding of global education incorporates elements of environmental education, social justice education, advocacy skill-building, peace education, media literacy, mulitcultural studies, anti-oppression discourse and human rights education. Through global education, students are learning to think critically and independently, challenge unjust systems, empathize and seek understanding, develop awareness of and curiosity for global issues, envision future scenarios and see a path to achieving them. Ultimately, they see themselves as able and willing to participate as a citizen in this globalized world.