Internationalizing the Curriculum for Indigenous Higher Education

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Faculty internationalize the curriculum to show students the similarities and differences in cultures, nations, political systems, and values. Teaching students to evaluate competing claims and information joins their local heritage with the global context to encourage responsible action toward others. Starting with their tradition ways of processing knowledge in their particular cultural context, students expand their critical thinking and decision-making to consider the larger world as it impacts their personal, familial, and communal lives. Cross-cultural comparisons, research from other indigenous groups, and experiences from worldwide neighbors place them in historical, political, and social communities but with a global perspective. Indigenes learn to appropriate the opportunities afforded by globalization such as international communication, transnational organizations, and rapidly developing technologies, for example, distance education delivery, and integrated financial and trade markets. Because of the global nature of competition, they must develop skills that allow them to function in the world of the twenty-first century. While retaining their own language and culture, they see the larger world and the interconnections. Students gain a broader perspective, benefit from the comparative strengths of other nations, and learn strategies for ameliorating ethnic, religious, racial, and political conflicts.

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