I've been thinking glocal for a long time.
Growing up in India, traveling through Latin America, being educated in Canada, and working in Haiti have reinforced that our world is very interconnected. My hope in this blog is to think through how we can help each other understand our glocal realities. That is, that everything we do is in some way connected with the broader world.
As important to me as the thinking about these realities is the acting on this awareness. Thinking and acting glocally - developing this global citizenship seems to me to be a critical path for our shared futures.
So if you share some of these wonderments, then please join me in the journey!
"Global" and "local" are constructs which no longer adequately capture our lived experience. "Glocal" attempts to capture the melding of international and local realities. This blog provides an opportunity to consider how we can develop glocal thinking and encourage others to do so as well.
About Me
- Steve Sider
- I have been an elementary and secondary school teacher and administrator. Currently, I am a faculty member in the Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. My M.Ed. and Ph.D. had a focus on the educational and linguistic experiences of children who moved from other countries to Canada.
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