Curriculum Committee of the ACSP Planning Globally Taskforce

Planning Globally Taskforce -- Coordinating committee meeting
Thursday, November 21, 2002. ASCP Annual Conference, Baltimore

Rcommendations based on the ACSP Planning Globally Taskforce Curriculum Sub-Committee meeting, April 26-27, 2002 hosted by Bish Sanyal at MIT. Click here for the agenda.

The notes below were prepared by Betsy Sweet and Teresa Vazquez (May 22, 2002)

The Curriculum Committee of the ACSP Planning Globally Taskforce developed four recommendations that need to be considered in order to strengthen global planning education:

1.Criteria recommended for PAB to evaluate and, in turn, make recommendations about the global component of planning education.

2. Methods recommended for teaching and doing research about global planning.

3. Resources, awards, and networking. Resources recommended for teaching and for doing research about global planning; awards to recognize a global planning agenda in teaching and research; and networking for sharing innovations in teaching and doing research on global planning.

4. Publications. Make recommendations to planning journals to welcome publishable material that emphasize global planning education and research.

The curricular proposals below relate to recommendation #3:

Resources
Create global regional work groups that teach classes, run workshops, develop joint programs (for travel or student projects).

Link with global communities in the United States and abroad to further develop alternative city futures at the global level that can be shared and modified through “global” discussion within the context of global sustainability.

Awards
Create an annual award for courses or course modules that exemplify “the global” in planning. A committee will set the criteria, solicit courses, select the best one, and present the award at the ACSP conference. The winning course will be included in the Global Planning Section of the ACSP website.

Recommend that the existing ACSP awards and prizes take into consideration projects, thesis, dissertations, and books that include global planning and/or planning for global communities in the United States or abroad.

Networking
Develop a data bank of syllabi and course modules with global content, interdisciplinary classes that relate In someway to the global, and other global focused electronic teaching, and research resources (including high school level materials) that can be linked to the ACSP website, such as bibliographies, mapping and statistical resources, pedagogical materials, and outreach activities.

Develop ways of collaboratively working with international communities and with teaching and research institutions here and abroad in order to share curriculum on global planning and global education. Use technology to connect to large and/or small programs, and to create sister communities and relationships.