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Otto, Eric; Wohlpart, A. James – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2009
Ultimately, sustainability "must take root in the consciousness and cultures of society" to become an effective means of creating widespread change. Indeed, the participants at the 1997 UNESCO Conference on Environment and Society: Education and Public Awareness for Sustainability recognised "that radical social change must occur…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Service Learning, Social Change, Humanities
DeVitis, Joseph L., Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2013
Mark Van Doren, the noted literary scholar, once remarked, "The college is meaningless without a curriculum, but it is more so when it has one that is meaningless." Many current critics of undergraduate curricula in America assent to the crucial need for programmatic renewal in our colleges and universities. They bemoan the cookie-cutter…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Higher Education, Liberal Arts, General Education
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Shaw, Sherry; Roberson, Len – American Annals of the Deaf, 2009
The concept of recentering the Deaf community in interpreter education stems from the recent discussion of program evolution away from stakeholders and into academia highlighted by Monikowski and Peterson (2005). The University of North Florida, in the initial stages of developing a B.S. degree and M.Ed. concentration in ASL/English Interpreting,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Strategic Planning, Deafness, Transformative Learning
Beisel, Raymond W.; Raze, Robert E., Jr. – 1997
This paper describes a partnership project with state parks in Florida and Pennsylvania that was inspired by and builds upon the work done through the Florida Office of Environmental Education with public schools and state parks in Florida. The project is a curriculum reform effort that combines the expertise and resources of a state park, two…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Environmental Education