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Download full textThelin, Bengt – 1992
This document which reviews peace education as the subject was presented in Sweden in the later 1980s. The paper argues for a stronger commitment to peace education and approaching the subject from the perspectives of the unique, the absurd, and the relevant. The contemporary era is unique in that humanity now possesses the means to reify…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedSchwartz, Richard – Community Review, 1992
Suggests that teachers use mathematics problems related to the "1992 World Population Data Sheet" to teach students about such population-related issues as hunger, resource scarcity, poverty, and pollution. Offers sample problems involving percents, ratios, basic calculations, sequences, variability, graphs, averages, and correlation. Includes a…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Community Colleges, Demography, Global Approach
Ormston, Randy, Ed. – 1979
To examine the cultural characteristics of a society without exploring the human condition of that society and how it relates to all as citizens on this planet is to ignore the realities of today. Most Canadians see global problems as massive and overwhelming. Some are uninformed and others are misinformed. As a result, gross misconceptions have…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Class Activities, Curriculum Enrichment, Developing Nations
Holm, Amy E. – 1986
The old ways of doing things are no longer suitable to some of the current conditions faced by the world, such as overpopulation, environmental degradation, unstable economic development, and wasteful consumption of natural resources. In order to achieve a sustainable future, nations must develop better long range planning through combining…
Descriptors: Ecology, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
Fletcher, Carol C. – 1980
Designed to foster an understanding of some of the relationships among population growth and distribution of people, food, and land area, this simulation kit deals with the following concepts: (1) the finite nature of land and resources, (2) the size and rate of growth of population, (3) the unequal distribution of population throughout the world,…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Charts, Demography, Educational Games
Peer reviewedWilliams, Mary Louise – Update on Law-Related Education, 1993
Argues that law-related education should prepare students to be able to debate global environmental issues. Discusses overpopulation, water quality, and species extinction. Concludes that law-related education's critical contribution may be to prepare citizens to balance competing interests and make decisions that promote the common good. (CFR)
Descriptors: Citizen Role, Citizenship Education, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
