Empowering global citizens offers educators and parents compelling answers to those questions this book presents the world course a curriculum on global citizenship education designed to equip students with the competencies they need to thrive and contribute to sustainable development in an era of globalization drawing on curriculum mapping this book offers a coherent and rigorous set of instructional units to support deep learning of twenty first century competencies that . Empowering global citizens offers educators and parents compelling answers to those questions this book presents the world course a curriculum on global citizenship education designed to equip students with the competencies they need to thrive and contribute to sustainable development in an era of globalization drawing on curriculum mapping this book offers a coherent and rigorous set of instructional units to support deep learning of twenty first century competencies that develop agency . Empowering global citizens a world course fernando reimers vidur chopra connie k chung julia higdon e b odonnell drawing on a synthesis of research and practice in global citizenship education this book presents the world course a rigorous and coherent curriculum to foster student agency empathy and deep . Began my review of empowering global citizens a world course in the days leading up to the recent us presidential election in the context of my own experience both studying and doing research in a university and in high schools in the united states for the last four years the election brought to mind two related ideas with which i have struggled in recent years regarding the relationship