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Article: Global perspective developemnt. (international educational policies)
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- September 22, 1997
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Introduction
Generally speaking, a global perspective has been associated with the field of international education. A single, professionally accepted definition of this perspective does not exist. The majority of the discourse on this topic deals with global perspective as an outcome of a formal curricular process. In addition, the road to a global perspective as reported by others, has been varied. For example, Kobus (1983) suggests global perspective implies "dealing with affective content" and global competencies which incorporate indispensable information, skills, and attitudes about the world into a person's cognitive repertoire. King (1973) posits that ...