Browsing by Subject "globalization"

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    Curriculum Intervention: Assessing Need for and Implementation of Sustainability Development in a Global Context within the First-Year Engineering Curriculum at Purdue University
    (2017-05-04) Collins, Angela J.
    BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE: Globalization is a world-wide phenomenon that is reshaping international relations in tremendous ways and at impossible rates. Due to rapid advancements in communication, transportation, and information technologies, there has been an increasing connectedness of humanity around the globe. With this trans-global integration comes many benefits, but also countless challenges. It is critical that engineering education facilities constantly update and restructure their curriculum to produce engineers who are capable of tackling the world’s greatest global challenges of this globalization era. Therefore, our team proposes a curriculum intervention of the First-Year Engineering Program. We wish to analyze the depth of global competency concepts taught in the course, with a specific focus on sustainability because it is crucial that young engineers develop an understanding of sustainability and perform their specialized tasks with a sustainable vision in mind. METHODS: To ensure high quality development of Purdue engineers is this area, our research team proposes a curriculum intervention involving two parts: (1) An analysis of the global competency and understanding of sustainability of current engineering sophomores who recently completed the First-Year Engineering (FYE) program at Purdue University; (2) An implementation of concepts from a current Purdue course, CE/EEE 355 Engineering Environmental Sustainability, into the FYE curriculum, as well as an implementation of globalization concepts as needed. Furthermore, our team seeks to answer the following research questions: (1) How consistent is the material that is taught across different sections within the FYE program? (2) How much control and influence does each engineering professor have in covering the topics of globalization and sustainability? (3) What hands-on, practical experience and exposure to globalization concepts are the students getting? EXPECTED OUTCOMES: At the conclusion of this research project, our team expects two tangible outcomes: (1) A plan of implementation of sustainability and globalization concepts into the Purdue engineering curriculum; (2) A set of data measurements and specific goals to determine whether the implemented concepts make a difference. Countless research papers stress the importance of evaluating the impact of new initiatives. Thus, our research team seeks statistical evidence that the concepts learned in CE/EEE 355 make a significant impact on the capability of the student, and the implementation of new concepts based off of CE/EEE 355 make a significant difference when implemented into the FYE engineering curriculum. CONCLUSION: In conclusion, the forces of globalization are leading to rapid changes among global dynamics and international relations, and several effects of globalization, such as poor resource utilization, are beginning to pose a threat to humanity. Therefore, engineers must be able to evolve alongside society and must have the skills to tackle the world’s leading problems. Engineers must also understand the importance of sustainable development to ensure a bright future for younger generations to come. As a result, our team suggests a curriculum intervention of the FYE program to better educated Purdue’s young engineers on issues of globalization and sustainability. Purdue is among the top engineering institutions, but to maintain its relevance and influence, there must be a shift in the curriculum to better prepare its graduates to work in this highly-globalized era.
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    The Double Character of Cuban Protestantism and Philanthropy
    (MDPI, 2018) Goodwin, Jamie; Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
    In Cuba and the United States, Protestant institutions exist that are both reflective and nonreflective about their culture’s influence on belief and practice. The case of Cuba sheds light on how Christian churches and voluntary associations operate in an authoritarian regime. Despite the tension and enmity that have typified Cuba’s geopolitical relationship with the United States since the colonial days, cross-cultural Christian philanthropic partnerships exist. The “doble carácter” (double character) of Cuban Protestant churches has grown out of both collaboration with, and resistance to U.S.-style evangelicalism (Arce Valentín 2016). Adaptations of liberation theology, adopted among Cuban Christians, provide an influential counterweight to the mighty Western theological and philanthropic tradition (González 2012). The nature of this engagement influences Cuban civil society, the survival of the Cuban regime, and provides an extreme case for cross-cultural philanthropy worldwide. This socio-historical account utilizes the data collected from personal interviews with Cuban Protestant leaders, primary sources found in the library at the San Cristobal Presbyterian Seminary and Cuban theological journals, and a qualitative analysis of literature on Cuba, Protestants, missions, philanthropy, nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and civil society. View Full-Text
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    Factors of Concern Regarding Zika and Other Aedes aegypti-Transmitted Viruses in the United States
    (Oxford Academic, 2017-03) Moreno-Madriñán, Max J.; Turell, Michael; Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
    The recent explosive outbreaks of Zika and chikungunya throughout the Americas has raised concerns about the threats that these and similar diseases may pose to the United States (U.S.). The commonly accepted association between tropical climates and the endemicity of these diseases has led to concerns about the possibility of their redistribution due to climate change and transmission arising from cases imported from endemic regions initiating outbreaks in the United States. While such possibilities are indeed well founded, the analysis of historical records not only confirms the potential critical role of traveling and globalization but also reveals that the climate in the United States currently is suitable for local transmission of these viruses. Thus, the main factors preventing these diseases from occurring in the United States today are more likely socioeconomic such as lifestyle, housing infrastructure, and good sanitation. As long as such conditions are maintained, it seems unlikely that local transmission will occur to any great degree, particularly in the northern states. Indeed, a contributing factor to explain the current endemicity of these diseases in less-developed American countries may be well explained by socioeconomic and some lifestyle characteristics in such countries.
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    Indifference-driven Discontent to Empathy-led Development: What Globally Minded Educators Can Learn from Stiglitz
    (FCT, 2016-06-27) Liu, Laura B.; Education, IUPUC
    Globalization and Its Discontents is a must-read for those in higher education seeking greater understanding of global economic policy’s key role in shaping globalization’s unfolding. Candidly and insightfully composed by 2001 Nobel Prize winner in economics, Joseph Stiglitz, this personalized narrative presents a brief history of the complex dynamic among global economic institutions and key regions of the world these institutions have impacted, for better or for worse. This review highlights that cultivating a shared global value for reducing inequality is as vital as it is challenging. Organizing shared approaches for addressing inequality present even greater challenges, as international political and economic systems differ enormously. In accessible language, Stiglitz (2003) approaches this complexity with a perceptive eye for trends. This review draws upon neurological and sociological bases for empathy as an active healing agent not only for persons (micro-level), but also for nations and our emerging global society (macro-level).
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    International and Global Issues
    (Education Law Association, 2019) King-Kostelac, Amelia; Nguyễn, David Hòa Khoa; School of Education
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    MULTCICULTURAL TEACHING PRACTICES: STUDENT PERSPECTIVES ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MULTICULTURAL TEACHING PRACTICES
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2012-04-13) Taylor, Alexis; Redden, Janalee; Ashburn-Nardo, Leslie
    As the world makes strides toward globalization, the demand for improved methods of multicultural teaching (MT) at the university level has dramatically increased. With growing diversity on campus, the demand for more multicultural teaching is at an all time high. Although the demands for MT practices are high, a recent survey at IUPUI revealed that many faculties continue to refrain from multicultural teaching due to a fear of backlash from both the students and other faculty members (Khaja, Springer, Bigatti, Gibau, Whiteland, & Grove, 2011). In an effort to evaluate IUPUI’s goal to incorporate more diversity, a survey on the university’s MT practices was distributed online to students that attend various schools on campus (N=4000, primarily juniors and seniors). The 466 respondents that took the survey were asked to respond to open-ended questions about their perception of multicultural teaching practices on campus. They were also provided with an opportunity to offer ideas on how the university could advance in the area of teaching diversity. The open-ended questions were quantified by creating coding categories which were pulled from common themes from the responses. Preliminary analyses suggest that the overall reactions to partaking in multicultural teaching practices are being viewed as being beneficial to student’s future endeavors. The analyses could alleviate some of the current concerns of the faculty and increase the percent of faculty that choose to participate in Multicultural Teaching.