Models for teaching global citizenship often limit themselves to conceptual analysis and passive methods for global knowledge acquisition. The Munk One Program I direct inverts these by deploying labs as experiential platforms... At the undergraduate level, we embed first year university students in policy research labs actively seeking new approaches in addressing wicked global problems.
Examples of Teaching Methods
In-Class Simulation on Neighbourhood Mapping
Groups of students huddled over game board grids that were covered by what might have been a random assortment of nickels and pennies... The coins represented two ethnic groups and students were examining how segregation could develop and how conflict potentially emerge, in what could be any number of cities across Canada or around the world...