IB Resources
This section signposts some very good downloadable resources for you to use. They can be used to introduce international mindedness if you are a Candidate School, or to encourage reflection and review if you are an IB World School.
Think pieces
East is East and West is West, Walker, G., 2010, IB. This is an IB position paper. Click here to access the paper. This position paper addresses the long-standing criticism that the International Baccalaureate (IB) is too closely associated with Western values. It analyzes the IB learner profile and concludes that it does reflect Western foundations of the IB, and therefore requests that the learner profile is reviewed regularly.
Learners without borders: A curriculum for global citizenship, Davy, I.,2011, IB. This is an IB position paper. Click here to access the paper.
Promoting International Mindedness in Our Schools, Davy, I., IB, 2005. Click here to access it. In this paper Davy addresses three questions: Why is it important to foster internationalism in education? What will international mindedness look like in my classroom and in my students? How do we build curriculum around the principles of internationalism as expressed in the IBO mission statement?
Educating the Global Citizen, Walker, G., IB,2007. Click here to access it.
Teacher thinking on developing informed and engaged students for a globally connected world, Merry M Merryfield, Tami Augustine, Moonsun Choi, Jason Harshman and Melinda McClimans, IB (2012). Click here to access it.
IB Research
A comparative study of international mindedness in the IB Diploma Programme in Australia, China and India, Dr Arathi Sriprakash, A.,Singh, M., Q,Jing., 2014, IB. Click here to access the paper.
21st century international mindedness: An exploratory study of its conceptualisation and assessment, Singh,M.,Qi, J, 2013, IB. Click here to access the paper. An excellent, although lengthy, research paper that traces the conceptualisation of international mindedness and existing instruments for assessing it. It provides a critique of how the concept has developed within the IB, and address criticisms of the IB that it is western-centric in outlook. Used in the form of extracts this is an excellent paper to encourage reflection.
Research summary: Conceptualizing and assessing international-mindedness (IM): An exploratory study,Paloma Castro, Ulla Lundgren and Jane Woodin, 2013, IB. Click here to access the paper. A consideration of how the three components of multilingualism, intercultural understanding and global engagement are linked to international-mindedness.
Good practice guides
Model United Nations (MUN). Click here to access the paper.
Going “beyond the bake sale”: Becoming more locally, globally engaged. Click here to access the paper.
Civic participation. Click here to access the paper.
My IB
My IB contains a number of documents related to international mindedness. It can be found by accessing the Diploma Programme Coordinators tab and then scrolling down to Cross-programme publications. This site contains:
- Learning Stories - on aspects of international mindedness
- Information sheets on aspects of Global Engagement, including Conflict, Cooperation and Governance, Development, Rights, and the Environment.