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#37            (December 1999)

    Our final newsletter of 1999 features articles on global issue songs, global education in Cuba and guidelines for teaching about world citizenship. We also include a global survey of “internationally-minded schools” and an analysis of images of Africa held by Japanese students and found in EFL texts. Conference reports include JALT’99 (Maebashi, Japan) and this fall’s Pan-Asian PAC2 Conference (Seoul, Korea). This issue also features a list of global education books for your holiday reading, a report on the 1999 activities of our JALT Global Issues SIG, and a list of global calendars for the year 2000. Best wishes to all for a Happy New Year and for a dynamic start to your global teaching in the new millennium!

Special features of this issue are:    
                                                       
   * Announcements: Conferences, UN Cyber School Bus, New Internationalist
   * JALT Global Issues SIG Officers / Donating textbooks / Recycled paper
   * Abstracts of global education articles from language teaching journals        
   * News from JALT’s Global Issues SIG / World Citizenship Special Issue
   * News from other ELT associations: TESOL, IATEFL, Thai TESOL, TSR
   * Conference Report: Pan-Asian PAC2 Conference (Oct. 1-3 in Seoul, Korea)
   * Report: 1st Asian Youth Forum (AYF) Sep. 30 – Oct. 3, 1999 (Seoul, Korea)
   * Conference Report: JALT'99 (October 8-11 in Maebashi, Japan)                
   * Designing Activities for Teaching EFL & Global Citizenship by David Peaty
   * Images of Africa: Japanese Students & EFL Textbooks by Yasuko Enomoto
   * Raising Consciousness of Global Issues by Isora O’Farrill and E. Savigne        
   * What is an Internationally-Minded School? by Esther Lucas                         
   * Teaching with Global Issue Songs: Part II by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa            
   * Information: Peace studies directory, Japanese NGOs, Green Teacher
   * Global Education: Who's Doing What? / Global Village: A Profile in Figures 
   * Book Corner: Global Education Books for the Year 2000
   * New language teaching textbooks dealing with global issues
   * Global calendars and datebooks for the year 2000                
   * Global education materials available from the Global Issues Network            * Coming Events Calendar / Global Issues in Language Education Network

 
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#35            (June 1999)

    This summer issue features a description of peace education language activities designed around the theme of Okinawa, a report on a volunteer EFL program for orphans developed in Korea, ideas for using global issue pop songs in the foreign language classroom and a report on an international peace congress held in the Hague in the Netherlands. Other articles include conference reports on TESOL’99 (New York) and RELC’99 (Singapore), a summer homework project which has students interview senior citizens about environmental changes in their local communities, and a list of resource books to help you teach about the millennium. We hope you enjoy this newsletter issue and wish you good luck with your summer projects.

Special features of this issue are:    
                                                       
   * Announcements: Positive news, New Internationalist, Asian Youth Forum
   * JALT Global Issues N-SIG Officers / Donating textbooks / Recycled paper
   * Abstracts of global education articles from language teaching journals        
   * News from JALT and other ELT groups: IATEFL, AILA, GELI, FIPLV
   * Conference Report: RELC’99 (April 19 - 21 in Singapore)                     
   * Conference Report: TESOL'99 (March 9 - 13 in New York, USA)         
   * Teaching Peace in Okinawa by Jerry Burks (with an Okinawa Awareness Quiz)
   * Environmental Education in Taiwan by Genevieve Wilson                    
   * The Banyan Tree: Teaching EFL to Korean Orphans by Wade Nichols    
   * Learning from Elders about the Environment by Greg Goodmacher        
   * Global Issue Songs in the English Classroom by Sunao Shimizu            
   * Special Report: The Hague Appeal for Peace Conference (May 11-15, 1999)
   * Information: Peace through tourism, Legends of peace, NGO conference
   * Global Education: Who's Doing What?                                              
   * Book Corner: Reference Books for Teaching about the Millennium
   * New language teaching textbooks dealing with global issues                    
   * Global education materials available from the Global Issues Network            * Coming Events Calendar / Global Issues in Language Education Network

 
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#33            (December 1998)

    This issue, our last newsletter of 1998, features articles about taking students on environmental field trips, teaching about the world’s indigenous peoples, education in Bangladesh and an essay on the challenge of teaching the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in English-as-a-foreign-language classes. Also included are a classic global education reading passage on experiencing poverty, fall conference reports from KoTESOL (Korea) and ETA-ROC (Taiwan), human rights education books for your holiday reading, a summary of our Global Issues N-SIG’s 1998 activities, and a list of global calendars for 1999. Best wishes to everyone for a Happy New Year!

Special features of this issue are:    
                                                       
   * Announcements: Global ed MA programs, Hague Appeal for Peace, WELL
   * JALT Global Issues N-SIG Officers / Donating textbooks / Recycled paper
   * Abstracts of global education articles from language teaching journals        
   * News from JALT and JALT’s Global Issues in Language Education N-SIG 
   * Character Education: Education of the Heart by William Bishop 
   * News from ELT associations: TESOL, AILA, IATEFL, PAC, AYF
   * 1998 Conference Reports: KoTESOL (Seoul) and ETA-ROC (Taipei) 
   * Perspectives on Education in Bangladesh by William Balsamo                
   * Hot Potato: The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process by Ephraim Weintroub
   * Designing Environmental Field Trips by Greg Goodmacher                     
   * Indigenous Peoples - Alive and Well in Your Classroom by Dorothy Dufour
   * Teaching Resources for Minority Issues
   * Classic Global Education Reading Texts: Living on Less than $200 a Year    
   * Global Education: Who's Doing What?                                                    
   * Resource Books for Human Rights Education                        
   * New language teaching textbooks dealing with global issues                    
   * Global Calendars and Datebooks    for the year 1999    
   * Global education materials available from the Global Issues Network            * Coming Events Calendar / Global Issues in Language Education Network

 
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#31            (June 1998)

    Our 1998 summer newsletter features articles on (1) environmental activities for creating a “green classroom”, (2) ideas for teaching about refugees through a simulation board game, and (3) a survey of World Wide Web sites that can bring the world into your classroom. Also included are articles on a student field trip to a peace museum, a non-violent vocabulary game to play instead of “Hangman”, a conference report on global issues at TESOL’98 in Seattle, news of global education summer programs in Japan and abroad plus a review of key reference books for promoting global awareness. Please enjoy the summer holiday. Good luck with your planning for an exciting fall semester of global issues language teaching!

Special features of this issue are:    
                                                       
   * Announcements: Global ed graduate opportunities, WELL, AIDS awareness
   * JALT Global Issues N-SIG Officers / Donating textbooks / Recycled paper
   * Abstracts of global education articles from language teaching journals        
   * Global education summer programs: Japan, Canada, England, USA, Lebanon
   * News from JALT’s Global Issues in Language Education N-SIG
   * News from ELT associations: JACET, TESOL, IATEFL, Korea TESOL
   * Conference Report: TESOL'98 (March 17 - 21 in Seattle, USA)                 
   * A Content-Based Approach to Teaching about Refugees by Vicky Starfire
   * A Non-Violent Alternative to the Vocab Game “Hangman” by Peter Sakura 
   * Globe Trotting on the World Wide Web by Christine Meloni                     
   * An EFL Peace Museum Field Trip by Sabrina & Winston Welch                 
   * Green Projects for a Green Classroom by Nina Ito & Anne Berry                
   * Global Education: Who's Doing What?                                                  
   * Reference Books on Global Awareness                            
   * New language teaching textbooks dealing with global issues                    
   * Global education materials available from the Global Issues Network            * Coming Events Calendar / Global Issues in Language Education Network

 
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#29            (December 1997)

    Two key events this December were the Kyoto environmental summit and the global landmine ban signed in Ottawa. To mark these, this final newsletter of 1997 features articles on environmental education, teaching activities from Green Teacher magazine and a classroom simulation on landmines. Also included are articles on using the Internet to promote global awareness, learning about far-away countries and using cultural objects to teach about Africa. This issue also features a conference report from Korea TESOL, global education books for your holiday reading, a summary of our Global Issues N-SIG’s 1997 activities, global issue presentations given at JALT regional chapters and a list of global calendars for 1998. Best wishes to everyone for a Happy New Year!

Special features of this issue are:    
                                                       
   * Announcements: Global ed MAs, Korea-Japan penpals, books for Poland
   * JALT Global Issues N-SIG Officers / Donating textbooks / Recycled paper
   * Abstracts of global education articles from language teaching journals    
   * News from JALT and JALT’s Global Issues N-SIG                            
   * Report for 1997: Global issue presentations at regional JALT chapters    
   * News from language teaching organizations around the world
   * Conference Report: Korea TESOL (October 3 - 5, 1997 Kyoungju City)
   * Events: World Day Without Violence, Asian Youth Forum, AILA 1999
   * Nine Principles for Environmental Education by Tim Grant                
   * Teaching Ideas from Green Teacher magazine            
   * If I Lived in Hachinohe, Japan... by Clement Laroy (Belgium / UK)
   * Using the Internet to Promote Globalization by John Bellows                   
   * Appeals: Speak Truth to Power / Professeurs sans Frontieres
   * Learning about the Third World through Realia by Ryoichi Yamada    
   * Special Feature: Teaching about Landmines: A Role-Play Simulation    
   * Global Education: Who's Doing What?                                               
   * Holiday Reading: Books on social issues, global English, world citizenship
   * New language teaching textbooks dealing with global issues                    * Global Calendars and Datebooks    for the year 1998    
   * Coming Events Calendar / Global Issues in Language Education Network

 
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Our summer newsletter issue features articles on peace education at high school in Tokyo, a multicultural summer camp in West Virginia, a university EFL unit designed to promote respect for indigenous people and the environment, and a class activity on global awareness through world stamps. Other topics include global issues on the Internet, the latest global education teacher resource books from the UK, conference reports on TESOL’97 in Florida and IATEFL’97 in England, and a unique “peace month” held in Albuquerque, New Mexico which featured a complete program of daily peace education events. Best wishes to all our readers for a great summer!

Special features of this issue are:    
                                                       

•  Announcements: Global ed summer schools, conflict resolution workshops

• JALT Global Issues N-SIG Officers / Donating textbooks / Recycled paper

• Summaries of global education articles in language teaching journals

• News from JALT and JALT’s Global Issues N-SIG

• Conference Report: TESOL'97 (March 11 - 15 in Orlando, Florida)

• Conference Report: IATEFL'97 (April 2 - 5 in Brighton, England)

• The Children’s Peace Statue and My English Class by Masumi Ikeda

• The Children’s Peace Statue: A Month of Peace Education Events

• Multicultural Camps for IEP Students by Helen Huntley

• Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Concerns by Mary Goebel Noguchi

• World Stamps and Global Issues by Tomomi Ohba

• Special Feature: Global Issues on the World Wide Web (Part II)

• Global Education: Who's Doing What?

• Appeals: Minority literature, human rights texts, UNPO, One World Week

• New language teaching textbooks dealing with global issues

• Professional Reading: Global Education Teacher Resource Books

• Global education materials available from the Global Issues Network

• Coming Events Calendar / Global Issues in Language Education Network

#36            (September 1999)

    Our fall newsletter features articles on topics ranging from world citizenship and gender stereotyping to teaching for charity and discrimination against non-native speaker teachers. Our conference reports in this issue include IATEFL’99 (Edinburgh) and Language World (York, UK) as well as AILA’99 (Tokyo) and LIOJ (Odawara). Please remember that this is an active newsletter, not a passive one. Contact addresses, e-mail and websites are included for the authors of articles, conference presenters, global issue groups and global education organizations. Don’t be shy! If you read about an interesting topic, project, person or resource, make contact and start building your own global network. Good luck with your fall global issues teaching and please try to attend our JALT’99 conference in Maebashi (see pages 12-13)!

Special features of this issue are:    
                                                       
   * Announcements: UN Cyber School Bus, New Internationalist, Lg and Peace
   * JALT Global Issues N-SIG Officers / Donating textbooks / Recycled paper
   * Abstracts of global education articles from language teaching journals        
   * News from JALT and other ELT groups: TESOL, IATEFL, GELI, FIPLV
   * Conference Report: IATEFL’99 (March 28 - April 1 in Edinburgh, Scotland) 
   * Reports: Language World 1999 (York, UK) / LIOJ    Summer Workshop
   * World Citizenship: Global Villager or Global Consumer? by S. Ockenden        
   * The Woes of a Filipino English Teacher in Korea by Thess Manangan
   * Teaching About Gender Stereotyping by Denise Drake                        
   * Conference preview: Global Issues at JALT'99 (Oct. 8-11 in Maebashi)     
   * Teaching for Charity: English for Humanitarian Purposes by John Small    
   * Conference Report: AILA’99 (August 1 - 6 in Tokyo, Japan)            
   * Manifesto 2000 for a Culture of Peace     /  Upcoming Millennium Events    
   * Information: UNICEF Voices of Youth, Global issues Internet links
   * Global Education: Who's Doing What?                                              
   * Book Corner: Background Reading on Global Issues
   * New language teaching textbooks dealing with global issues                    
   * Global education materials available from the Global Issues Network            * Coming Events Calendar / Global Issues in Language Education Network

 
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#34            (March 1999)

    This issue, our first newsletter of 1999, features a survey on the world knowledge of Japanese EFL students, a description of an English language curriculum on gender issues and an account of a class charity appeal for the victims of Hurricane Mitch. Other articles include a conference report on language teaching and peace education, an essay on teaching content-based social studies, a global issues brainstorming activity as well as resource books for teaching about Japan and World War II. Please note that Kip Cates will be in the US for TESOL from March 7 - 20 and in the UK for IATEFL from March 24 - April 7. We look forward to bringing you lots of global education news over the coming year. Good luck with your spring teaching!

Special features of this issue are:    
                                                       
   * Announcements: Hague Appeal for Peace, global ed MAs, WELL, AIDS
   * JALT Global Issues N-SIG Officers / Donating textbooks / Recycled paper
   * Abstracts of global education articles from language teaching journals        
   * News from JALT and other groups: TESOL, AILA, IATEFL, PAC, GELI
   * Information: Character ed, Children of the World, IPRA, computer pals
   * Conference Report: Language Teaching and the Promotion of Peace          
   * Teaching Gender Issues in the EFL Classroom by Denise Drake                
   * Gender Quiz (with sample responses from men and women in Japan)        
   * Assessing Students’ World Knowledge by Janice Penner & Akihiro Omichi
   * Hurricane Mitch: How to Run a Charity Appeal by Carol Fritsch                
   * Brainstorming Solutions to Global Issues by Debbie Gutmann-Ashiri        
   * Designing an EFL Content Curriculum on World War II by Robert Gettings
   * Global Education: Who's Doing What?                                              
   * New language teaching textbooks dealing with global issues                    
   * Book Profiles: Background Reading on Japan and World War II
   * Global education materials available from the Global Issues Network            * Coming Events Calendar / Global Issues in Language Education Network

 
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#32            (September 1998)

    Our fall newsletter for 1998 features articles on ethical investment, peace education through children’s literature, dealing with minority issues in the classroom, teaching about bias towards out-groups, and a “Mini-Earth” EFL course about world countries and cultures. Also included are a global issues textbook review, a conference report on global education sessions at IATEFL’98 in England, reference books for promoting global awareness as well as a preview of the many global issue presentations at the upcoming JALT’98 national conference in Omiya. Please plan to come and attend this exciting conference!

Special features of this issue are:    
                                                       
   * Announcements: Global ed MAs, AIDS awareness, WELL, Books for Laos
   * JALT Global Issues N-SIG Officers / Donating textbooks / Recycled paper
   * Abstracts of global education articles from language teaching journals        
   * News from JALT and JALT’s Global Issues in Language Education N-SIG 
   * Conference Preview: JALT'98 (November 20-23 in Omiya, Japan)              
   * News from ELT associations: JACET, TESOL, GELI, AILA, Korea TESOL
   * Conference Report: IATEFL'98 (April 14 - 18 in Manchester, UK)             
   * News and Information: IPRA, Bangladesh, Education for the Future, ETAI
   * An Introduction to Bias by Patricia Galien                                            
   * You Can Teach a Sneetch! Peace Education with Dr. Seuss by Irma Ghosn     
   * Mini-Earth: A New Planet for Language Teaching by Natalia Vanyushkina 
   * Minority Issues and Language Teaching by Dorothy Dufour                    
   * Ethical Investment: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is by Alex Routh
   * Round the World in 80 Minutes / Building Environmental Consciousness
   * Book Review Open Minds: Exploring Global Issues by Timothy Allen    
   * Global Education: Who's Doing What?                                          
   * Reference Books for Global Teachers                            
   * New language teaching textbooks dealing with global issues                    
   * Global education materials available from the Global Issues Network            * Coming Events Calendar / Global Issues in Language Education Network

 
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#30            (March 1998)

    Our first newsletter of 1998 focusses on multi-media teaching and experiential education. Featured articles deal with (1) promoting handicap and landmine awareness through simulations, (2) the teaching of English through global issue movies, (3) bringing the world into the classroom through oral interviews, and (4) a global education English program at a Tokyo girls’ high school. Also included are articles on the International Declaration of Linguistic Rights, a student environmental awareness survey from Green Teacher magazine, a “global issues and peace education” summer academy in Lebanon, and a profile of key books on women’s issues. We look forward to bringing you more global education news over the coming year. Please note that Kip Cates will be in the US from March 15 - 30 and in the UK from April 8 - 20. Good luck with your spring global issues language teaching!

Special features of this issue are:    
                                                       
   * Announcements: Global ed summer courses, Passepartout, books for Laos
   * JALT Global Issues N-SIG Officers / Donating textbooks / Recycled paper
   * Abstracts of global education articles from language teaching journals        
   * News from JALT and other language teaching organizations                    
   * Invitation: Peace, Global Issues and ELT Summer Academy in Lebanon
   * Teaching Global Issues through English Movies by Yasuyo Fukunaga         
   * Global Education EFL at Tokiwamatsu Gakuen by Etsuko Yatate               
   * Experiential-Based Roleplays for Social Awareness by Tim Newfields      
   * Class Eco-Survey by Bob Simpson (Green Teacher Magazine)
   * The Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights by Catherine Walter           
   * Global Education Interviews in the EFL Classroom by William Balsamo    
   * Global Education: Who's Doing What?                                                  
   * Spring Reading: Key Books about Women’s Issues                        
   * New language teaching textbooks dealing with global issues                    
   * Global education materials available from the Global Issues Network            * Coming Events Calendar / Global Issues in Language Education Network

 
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#28            (September 1997)
   Our fall 1997 newsletter features articles on environmental education and American studies, teaching peace in the foreign language classroom and global awareness activities for junior high school. This also includes an EFL lesson on Mother Teresa from India, a peace education reading text by Mark Twain, conference reports from Japan and abroad and details of Tim Grant’s Green Teacher workshops in Asia. Other features include global education book reports, a Nobel Peace Prize appeal plus a preview of the many exciting global issue presentations planned for the upcoming JALT’97 conference in Hamamatsu. Please plan to attend!

Special features of this issue are:    
                                                       
   * Announcements: Environmental ed, One World Week, global issue movies 
   * JALT Global Issues N-SIG Officers / Donating textbooks / Recycled paper
   * Japan Lecture Tour: Tim Grant Green Teacher Environmental Education
   * Summaries of global education articles in language teaching journals           
   * News from JALT and JALT’s Global Issues N-SIG                                 
   * Conference Report: JACET’97 College EFL (Sept. 5-7, 1997 in Tokyo)  
   * Conference Reports: JET Renewers Conference / LIOJ Summer Workshop
   * Education: Rising to the Global Challenge (ISA 1997) by Esther Lucas    
   * Establishing an Experiential Values Environmental Unit by Chris Haralam    
   * Profile: Environmental Education Resource Books 
   * Conference Preview: JALT'97 (October 9-12 in Hamamatsu, Japan)
   * Series: Global Issues in World Textbooks – An Indian unit on Mother Teresa
   * Peace Education Classics: The War Prayer by Mark Twain                    
   * 10 Ways to Teach Peace in the Language Classroom by Michael Goethals
   * Junior High School English with a Global Twist by Ian Walkinshaw         
   * International Appeal of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates                            
   * Global Education: Who's Doing What?                                                  
   * Textbook Review: Speaking Globally by Mary Goebel Noguchi                    * Book Review: The Diplomat’s Dictionary    by Francisco Gomes de Matos        * New language teaching textbooks dealing with global issues                        * Global education materials available from the Global Issues Network    
   * Coming Events Calendar / Global Issues in Language Education Network

 
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Our first issue of 1997 features common questions that teachers ask about global issues, environmental classroom activities, English teaching in the Philippines and peace education in Europe. Other topics include sexual harassment in schools, the Seville Statement on Violence, and Linguapax books on international understanding. Our annual subscription fee for JALT members will rise to 1500 yen on April 1st - still a bargain for four 24-page newsletters a year! Thanks for your support. We look forward to bringing you more global education news over the coming year. Please note that Kip Cates will be in the US March 2 - 18 and in the UK March 29 - April 10. Good luck with your spring teaching!

Special features of this issue are:    
                                                       

• Announcements: peace education, visits by global & environmental ed experts

• JALT Global Issues N-SIG Officers / Donating textbooks / Recycled paper

• Summaries of global education articles in language teaching journals

• News from JALT’s Global Issues in Language Education N-SIG

• Report for 1996: Global issue presentations at regional JALT chapters

• Commonly Asked Questions about Global Issues by Jessica Newby-Kawata

• Teaching Conversation with Environmental Content by Greg Goodmacher

• English in the Philippines by Doray Espinosa

• Series: Global Issues in World Textbooks – A Philippines EFL unit on activism

• Peace Education? No, Thank You! by Reinhold Freudenstein (Germany)

• Special Feature: Sexual Harassment in Schools – What it is / How to stop it

• The Seville Statement on Violence by Christopher Renner

• Global Education: Who's Doing What?

• Book Review: Declaration of Linguistic Rights    by Francisco Gomes de Matos

• Professional Reading: Key UNESCO Linguapax Books

• New language teaching textbooks dealing with global issues

• Global education materials available from the Global Issues Network

• Coming Events Calendar / Global Issues in Language Education Network