First Discussion, Institute of Adult Education, St. Petersburg
The Institute of Adult Education, St. Petersburg, Russia---American and Soviet educators meet at the Institute in November 1988 to discuss potential collaboration between Georgia State University and the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. This meeting brought together the educators who were instrumental in designing and developing the Global Thinking Project.
Key Administrators of the GTP
Mr. Vadim Zhudov, Director of School 710, Moscow, and Dr. Jennie Springer, Principal of Dunwoody High School, Georgia
The purpose of the GTP is to bring together teachers and students from different countries to discuss and research imporant environmental questions. Here Dr. G. Manke, from Moscow's Experimental Gymnasium 710 and a student from St. Petersburg Experimental High School 157 participate with other American and Russian teachers and students in an environmental field trip in a park in St. Petersburg. In describing the ultimate purpose of student's work in the GTP, Dr. Manke used the phrase "we should be helping students become fighters for the environment."
April 1993---Callus, Spain---The GTP is a global project. Students and teachers from a number of nations have participated in the GTP. Here key educators (Ramon Barlom, Anna Pinyero, Narcis Vives) in Spain's Barecelona region discuss the GTP. A number of schools from Spain joined the GTP, and attended GTP Institutes held in Atlanta during the summer.
Dr. Lee Hansen Sission, Psychologist, Hilo, Hawaii Welcomed by a Russian Girl