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Originally appears in the Spring 2022 issue.

Editor’s Notes:

Issue 30

The School in the Global Age by Graham Pike and David Selby

In the fall of 1992, the words from Graham Pike and David Selby’s July 1991 address at a Summer Institute in Global Education appeared in the 30^th issue of Green Teacher magazine. Thirty years later, we can confidently state that the environmental education field has, to varying degrees, embraced all five dimensions of the robust framework that Pike and Selby propose “for shifting schooling at all levels further along the road from the pre-global to the global.” Particularly relevant is their third dimension — health of the planet awareness — wherein they state that “students should appreciate the differing worldviews and value systems which give rise to such diverse perspectives.” Through a complex combination of factors — declining in-person communication and rising internet anonymity surely chief among them — tolerance of differing worldviews is suffering in many factions of society. At a time when perspectives seem to be getting ever more entrenched, it would be prudent to heed Pike and Selby’s advice and help our learners “understand a range of arguments surrounding global issues.”