Global Citizenship Professional Development Readings
Global Citizenship Professional Development Readings
At JUMP! Foundation we are extremely passionate about global citizenship, youth empowerment, and sustainability. After over a decade of working with students, educators, parents, partner organizations, and other members of the global community we’ve compiled some great resources.
Here is a huge list of books that we’ve recommended over the years to people looking to focus on global citizenship professional development.
If we’ve missed any here please write a message below and tell us what we should add, keep the conversation going!
Global Citizenship Books
- Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect, by David W. Orr
- The World Becomes What We Teach: Educating A Generation of Solutionaries by Zoe Weil
- Be the Change: Teacher, Advocate, Global Citizen edited by Rita Verma
- Educating for Human Rights and Global Citizenship edited by Ali A. Abdi and Lynette Shultz
- Global Citizenship Education: A Practical Guide for Schools by Boyd Roberts
- Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World by Tony Wagner
- Future Wise: Educating Our Children for a Changing World, by David Perkins
- The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World, by Peter M. Senge, et al.
- High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them, by Jean-Francois Richard
- As If the Earth Matters: Recommitting to Environmental Education, by Thom Henley and Kenny Peavy
- Empowering Students to Improve the World in Sixty Lessons by Fernando Reimers
- Empowering Global Citizens: A World Course by Fernando Reimers
- One Student at a Time: Leading the Global Education Movement by Fernando Reimers
- Global Education Guidebook by Jennifer D. Klein
- The Global Educator: Leveraging Technology for Collaborative Learning and Teaching by Julie Lindsay
- Launch: Using Design Thinking to Boost Creativity and Bring out the Maker in Every Student by John Spencer and A J Juliani
- Empower: What Happens When Students Own Their Own Learning by John Spencer and A J Juliani
- Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education by Sir Ken Robinson
- Reimagining Literacy Through Global Collaboration by Pernille Ripp
- Where am I Eating?: An Adventure Through the Global Food Economy by Kelsey Tillerman
- Where am I Wearing?: A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes by Kelsey Tillerman
- World Hunger: 10 Myths by Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins
- The Kid’s Guide to Service Projects by Barbara A. Lewis
- Kids Who Are Changing the World by Anne Jankeliowitch
- The Complete Guide to Service Learning by Cathryn Berger Kay
- Getting Started in Service-Learning: An Elementary Through High School Handbook by the National Youth Leadership Council
- The Systems Thinking Playbook: Exercises to Stretch and Build Learning and Systems Thinking Capabilities by Linda Booth Sweeny and Dennis Meadows
- Systems Thinking For Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results by David Peter Stroh
Global Citizenship Classroom Resources and Handbooks
- The Global Education Toolkit for Elementary Learners by Homa Sabat Tavengar and Becky Mladic-Morales
- Global Art: Activities, Projects, and Inventions From Around the World by Maryann Kohl and Jean Potter
- Global Citizenship for Young Children by Margaret Collins
- Engaging Students Through Global Issues: 2nd Edition, Activity-Based Lessons and Action Project from Facing the Future
- Making Connections: Engaging Students in Language, Literacy, and Global Issues from Facing the Future
- Real World Math: Engaging Students through Global Issues from Facing the Future
- It’s All Connected: A Comprehensive Guide to Global Issues and Sustainable Solutions from Facing the Future
- Global Citizenship: The Handbook for Primary Teaching by Mary Young
- Education in a Global Space edited by T L K Wisely et.al
- Human Rights in the Curriculum: Maths, by Peter Wright & Margot Brown
- Human Rights and the Curriculum: French edited by Margot Brown
- Human Rights and the Curriculum: History edited by Margot Brown and Sara Slater
- Young Children and Global Citizenship- A Teacher’s Handbook from Tide~ Global Learning
Global Citizenship Articles
- “What We Don’t Talk About When We Don’t Talk About Service” by Adam Davis
- “What Does it Mean to be a Global Citizen” by Ronald C. Israel
- “What kind of global citizens are teachers creating?” By Caroline Ferguson
- “The role of global learning in staff development and school improvement” by Kerry Eustice
- “How can schools take global learning to the next level?” by Emily Drabble and Lisa Spiller
- “How our school developed an international approach to learning” by Kerry Eustice
- “From peace to poverty: lesson ideas to help students grasp global issues” by Emma Drury
- “10 tips to promote global citizenship in the classroom” by Richard King
- “Getting students globetrotting isn’t the only way to bridge the global skills gap” by Jo Sale
- “Five ideas for getting students involved in global learning” by Emily Drabble
- “Beyond Borders: What It Means to Be a Global Citizen” by Drew Noble Alexander
- “Identity 2016: ‘Global citizenship’ rising, poll suggests” by Naomi Grimly
- “Turning Students Into Global Citizens” by Fernando M. Reimers
- “Culturally Responsive Classrooms” by Jennifer L.W. Fink
- “10 ways to promote international mindedness” from International Teacher Magazin
- “Global Education: Resource Roundup” from Edutopia
- “Why the world needs more global citizens” by Paul Sherman
- “Global Citizenship – What Are We Talking About and Why Does It Matter?” by Kris Olds
- “74 Interview: Harvard’s Fernando Reimers on the Crucial Need to Teach Kids to Be Strong Global Citizens” by Kate Stringer

Ali Meighan
Australia Program Director
For more information on any of the exciting youth empowerment projects we have in the pipeline please reach out to me or email info@jumpfoundation.org