ABSTRACT

We are living in a time when it is easier than ever to learn about different cultures. Indeed, through migration, people of different faiths and traditions are more likely to live across the street from us, rather than a country away. In international schools, administrators, teachers, and parents celebrate diversity and applaud the way students cooperate peacefully, working together, and celebrate this internationalism. What exactly is being celebrated? The existence of diversity? Globalization? Or something more tangible and definable? This chapter explores the ideas that surround international mindedness and how this can be explored in depth at schools. The chapter also shares the journey of two schools, where curriculum leaders worked with teachers, students, and parents to audit the curriculum and find ways to enhance international mindedness as they defined it for their contexts.