Building Global Citizens: How Schools Can Foster Cross-Cultural Collaboration
Today the world is closer than it has ever been. The internet and technology can ensure that a child in one nation can communicate immediately with another child in the other hemisphere, which is thousands of miles away. Borders are no longer exploitative on businesses, governments or even local communities. This reality as it comes implies that the future generation should be taught to work with a lot of people from diverse cultures. Schools have a major function to prepare children for the future. Within the school setting, one of the strongest lessons, which schools can convey, is cross-cultural collaboration as the capacity to cooperate with individuals, who might think, speak, and live in different ways. Such a skill is not merely a career skill but the basis of becoming a global citizen. The Significance of Cross-cultural Cooperation Cross-cultural cooperation is not just a polite or respectful gesture. It is also about acquiring communication and collaboration skills with people...