Coloring outside the lines: Global education in the classroom

The purpose of this thesis was to explore the classroom effects of infusing global education. This was accomplished by implementation of the global education project Jungles: From the Streets to the Rainforest into three grade eight social studies classes.;The data suggests that the strength of infusing global education in the classroom is the enhancement of the emotional connections of students to their learning. When the students become more passionately connected to their education through the collaborative global education activities, they are more capable of asserting their emerging political voice in the classroom. The emotional responses to the role playing activities are intense. The overall pedagogy enables the students to better relate their personal lives to school assignments.;The study concludes that global education, through its principles, themes, and pedagogies, has great potential for social change through education. The connections of global education and peace education to related movements such as development education, multiculturalism education, and critical teaching place both global education and peace education in a position of facilitating an 'umbrella' role for transformative education movements.;The thesis focuses on four areas: a conceptual framework of global education, a discussion of research methodology, a description of the integration of the global education project and the social studies program, and an analysis of the data.