Women working for peace; men waging war. Cooperative women; conflictual men. Such images can be found throughout international relations research, educational psychology studies of learning styles and approaches, and in our daily settings. These images also pervade research and conventional wisdom about the efficacy of women in leadership roles and the roles they can play in most decision-making environments. Such images are sharpened when technological efficacy is inserted into our understanding of the differences in the ways men and women, boys and girls interface with the world around them.

The GlobalEd Project was created out of a need to systematically and scientifically evaluate these perceived gender differences in leadership and decision-making styles and values and in approaches to technology. The Project does this by using the ICONS (International Communication and Negotiation Simulation) simulation approach to conduct international negotiation simulations across each of three years with students in middle school and high school social studies programs.

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