Cross-Cultural Collaborative Inquiry: A Collective Case Study with Students from China and the US

Teaching New Literacies and Inquiry: A Grassroots Effort to Bring About Educational Change in Kenya

“…Created a decade ago, the NLI provides PD for teachers using an inquiry‐based learning approach with emphasis on new literacies (Spires et al, 2009). Before being conducted in Kenya, the NLI was conducted with over 3,000 teachers in the United States and China (Spires, Kerkhoff, & Zheng, 2018; Spires, Paul, Himes, & Yuan, 2018).…”

Going Global With Project‐Based Inquiry: Cosmopolitan Literacies in Practice

“…Furthermore, students must be hospitable, creating space for each culture to be included (Spires, Kerkhoff, & Fortune, 2018). Working with others from around the world creates opportunities for intercultural dialogue and transactions of perspectives as meanings are negotiated and new ideas are generated (Spires, Paul, et al, 2018).…”

“…Specifically, teachers became “actively involved in constructing themselves rather than being [solely] acted upon in the midst of a change process” (Spires, Kerkhoff, & Fortune, , p. 16). With students, the development of educational cosmopolitan outlooks was tied to explicit global connections facilitated by the teacher during the project, such as setting the expectation for students to design “compelling questions that necessitate a comparative cross‐cultural response” (Spires, Paul, et al., , p. 39).…”

“…The PBI Global initiative grew out of our question, How do we engage students to be local and global agents of change? From this question, we have explored how collaborative inquiry, specifically PBI (Spires et al, 2009;Spires, Hervey, Morris, & Stelpflug, 2012;Spires, Kerkhoff, & Graham, 2016), could be adapted for a global context.…”

“…Recently, we facilitated PBI Global to explore the sundry ways that students are motivated to transform their local and global environments (Spires, Kerkhoff, & Fortune, 2018;Spires, Paul, Himes, & Yuan, 2018). In these studies, we found that students and teachers engaging in PBI Global experienced growth in educational cosmopolitan outlooks to varying degrees.…”