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Global Education

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Lake Forest Academy places the utmost importance on helping our students become better global citizens. Cultivating a deeper sense of global awareness and understanding is rooted throughout our curriculum. Whether in the classroom, on service trips, traveling with a class, or spending a year abroad, LFA students are encouraged to widen their horizons both figuratively and literally. Learn more about the many opportunities our students have to expand their global horizons on this page.

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Global Learning Must Be Intentional

It implies a purposeful, educational environment in which our students learn to engage with the world from multiple perspectives with empathy.

Capabilities essential to global citizenship: critical self-examination and examination of one’s own traditions, thinking as a citizen of the world, and exercising a “narrative imagination” that allows one to see the world through the eyes of others.

the ability to be an intelligent reader of another person's storyMartha Nussbaum, University of Chicago