Journal of International Social Studies, v. 11, n. 1, 2021, p. 1 
 

 

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From the Editor: 

It has become a tradition that every spring our journal publishes the paper that received the NCSS 

International Assembly Best Paper Award. This issue opens with the article Collaborative, Online, 

and International Learning to Promote Civic Competence in Japan and the U.S. that received 

the 2020 Best Paper Award. The group of authors, Cory Callahan (The University of Alabama), 

Katsuki Umeda (Chiba University, Japan), and Saki Matsubara (University of Tsukuba, Japan) 

investigated whether virtual collaboration with Japanese peers helped pre-service social studies 

teachers in the U.S. demonstrate civic competence as it relates to international and global 

education. The study demonstrated that education programs can prepare novice teachers to 

think and act globally by providing international telecollaborative experiences emphasizing 

classroom instruction informed by civic competence as it relates to international and global 

education. 

Other articles published in this issue are: Global Project-Based Learning as an Approach to 

Teaching the 4Cs in Schools by an international group of scholars from University of Newcastle, 

Australia - Marini Budiarti, Katre Ferguson-Patrick, Suzanne Macqueen, and Ruth Reynolds; 

Aligning the Goals of the University with Opportunities in Education Abroad by Chris McGrew, 

Zachariah Mathew, and John Conant (Indiana State University); Students’ Perspectives on Social 

Studies Teachers’ Views on Immigration and Nationalism by William McCorkle and Hannah 

Jeffries (College of Charleston); and Global Citizenship Perceptions and Practices Within the 

International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme by Andrea Christoff (Kent State 

University).  

Enjoy the reading. 

 

Anatoli Rapoport 

Editor 

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