Rethinking Education for a Global, Transcultural World

A volume in Research in Social EducationSeries Editor Merry Merryfield, The Ohio State UniversityThe global networking promoted by technology, globalization and migration that are occurring at a largescale, requires school systems that develop in the students new types of skills, based on the ability tounderstand the world and its problems and instill a sense of responsibility and cooperation to enhance theresolution of the great problems of mankind.Rethinking education is essential in a global, transcultural, changing and communicated world. Throughoutthe book Rethinking Education for a Global, Transcultural World is argued and analyzed how to buildrelationships between the school and society, and the possibilities of transcending the barriers in differentnational contexts: Chile, Israel, Mexico, Morocco, Poland, and Spain.The main goal we want to achieve with the contributions made in the book is to know how educationsystems and schools in different countries respond to the social changes caused by globalization, migrationand new communication technologies.The authors are professors of different scientific disciplines and different faiths, cultures and points ofview, living the realities described in the chapters and thinking from these realities how to improve and how should be the education in a global,challenging and ever-changing world. We stress the importance of this book and its implications in the education of children and youth and in thepreparation of teachers. For this reason, this is a book designed for teachers of primary and secondary schools, parents, principals, supervisors,university teachers who prepare school teachers, university students and those who want to know and think about education in a global andintercultural world and new forms of communication to face learning, whether at local or at world level.The mission of all is continue building education, and to facilitate this work in this book are presented contributions and recommendations ofprofessionals around the world that will allow the reader to know, analyze, understand and appreciate the importance of education to prepare studentsto function with open and critical thinking in a global world. The chapters do not offer a panacea, butoffer many ideas on how, through education, prepare citizens for a global and transcultural society.