There are several books I read over the holidays I would like to recommend.
Curt Bonk’s The World Is Open: How Wed Technology is Revolutionizing Education (Jossey-Bass, 2009) is the perfect marriage of global ed and electronic technologies. Has chapters on e-learning, OpenCourseWare, electronic collaboration and global networking. Curt’s writing style makes the book a pleasure to read. And he has a website http://worldisopen.com to follow up with more info and discussion.
Global Education: Using Technology to Bring the World to Your Students by Laurence Peters (published by ISTE, 2009) is the Web 2.0 for global educators. Provides case studies of projects combined with new conceptualizations of a global classroom. From Ning to ePals he shares the nuts and bolts of applying many new tools with real kids and schools. Unlike many similar books, this one addresses elementary and middle schools.
Educating for Human Rights and Global Citizenship, edited by Ali A. Abdi and Lynette Shultz (Suny, 2008) addresses many of the enduring issues about social justice within new frameworks of global citizenship with authors from India, Peru, the UK, and Canada. Voices from the margins are well represented as are significant isssues from child slavery to cultural imperialism.
Visions in Global Education is an edited volume by Toni Kirkwood (Peter Lang, 2009). It captures the state of the field by some well know global educators as well as the new generation of scholars. It provides global perspectives on global ed.