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      World-mindedness of students and their geography education at international (IB-DP) and regular schools in the Netherlands

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            This article reports the results of a study conducted to gain insight into the worldmindedness of young people living in the Netherlands. Two groups are compared: students attending 'regular' Dutch schools and students attending international schools. A questionnaire measured the students' world-mindedness and their evaluation of their geography education in terms of global content and pedagogy. In our limited study, international school students were overall more world-minded than young people attending Dutch conventional schools. However, similarities were also seen: both groups were positive about values such as respect, diversity, and sustainability, and less positive about values such as solidarity and equality. International schools aimed more towards global learning than did Dutch schools, because of the experiential learning of students exposed to an international educational environment. In the opinion of the students, geography education at Dutch schools was often limited to learning about global issues and perspectives, while at international schools it seemed also to encompass learning for a global perspective.

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            Journal
            72010448
            International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning
            int j develop educ gobal learn
            IOE Press
            1756-5278
            01 December 2014
            : 6
            : 3
            : 5-30
            Article
            1756-5278(20141201)6:3L.5;1- s2.phd /ioep/ijdegl/2014/00000006/00000003/art00002
            10.18546/IJDEGL.06.3.02
            d8f52dc6-92fa-4c0a-90ca-5c387a809e81
            Copyright @ 2014
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            Education,Assessment, Evaluation & Research methods,General education
            WORLD-MINDEDNESS,NETHERLANDS,INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL STUDENTS,YOUNG PEOPLE,INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE,GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION,GLOBAL EDUCATION

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