For the International Criminal Court a crime against the environment is now a crime against humanity.  Are judges our best hope to halt environmental destruction?

“My project focuses on globally networked learning environments, and it will provide an opportunity for students to understand the realities of the contexts they’re studying by making connections beyond the classroom.”

 “In the global classroom, two or more instructors will use technology platforms to deliver lectures for the students in both locations. And the students will work together as international teams to complete project work, jointly conduct research, or develop case studies informed by their unique experiences and perspectives.”

On CBC’s reality TV show Dragon’s Den, entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas on national television, vying for financial investment from a panel of venture capitalists.

A first year course at the Munk School of Global Affairs is putting a more altruistic spin on the concept, challenging first year students to come up with ambitious ideas for solving global problems.

Through a new Teaching & Learning Community of Practice (CoP), Arts & Science faculty are coming together to share the best of their teaching techniques and practices.

Those who already live with the effects of climate change, and need accountability most, lack the power to influence accountability mechanisms. Teresa Kramarz on why that’s a big problem.

Channeling Hobbes in a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors

This month, I am teaching a University of Toronto course in Argentina that I have been organizing for the past year.  The course is called:  Localizing Global Governance.  Follow our trip log here

http://uoft-argentina.blogspot.ca

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.

The following examples represent some of the ways in which I engaged first-year students in applying multiple disciplinary perspectives, and research methods to investigate problems of social order through a hands-on approach to learning in my classes.