Abstract
This article argues that US higher education knowledge production remains localized but gets disguised as global. Consequently, local ways of knowing get projected as universal and students’ worldviews are never complicated or expanded. It offers a pedagogical corrective to this trend and situates the world literature classroom as one of the primary locations that is capable of reimagining global knowledge production in U.S. universities. More specifically, the article explores the fluid movement between close and distant reading as well as the potential of Globally Networked Learning Environments (GLNE) as concrete ways of ensuring that global knowledge production is truly global in scope. Utilizing GNLEs in the world literature class provides a pedagogical model that enables critical engagement with the complexity of global issues through the study and discussion of global texts all while in a global environment. While US institutions seek to expand their global footprints, the educational experiences of students too often remain local. Ultimately, through theoretical and practical examples, the article argues that if students in the US academy are to have a truly global education, teachers and administrators must first start by reforming and transforming local sites of learning.
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- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Editors’ Note
- The Counter Narrative: Critical Analysis of Liberal Education in Global Context
- Liberal Education in Asia: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
- Whose Cosmopolitanism Is It Anyway? Musings from the Global Academy
- Reading with Borders: Text, Context, and Comparative Literature from Korea
- Shifting Proximities: A Case for Global Reading in US Higher Education
- Americans Abroad: Melville and Pacific Perspectives
- Transposing Pedagogic Boundaries: Global America in an Australian Context
- Book Reviews
- Masuda Hajimu: Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World
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