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Richa Gupta – Childhood Education, 2024
Children living in poverty face numerous challenges that negatively affect their wellbeing and thus their ability to learn. The consequences of poverty that interfere with students' learning include inattentiveness, demotivation, and feelings of powerlessness, shame, and anger. To reach these children, with the goal of helping them become healthy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Emotional Learning, Well Being, Poverty
Wheeler, Keith A.; Hesselink, Frits; Goldstein, Wendy – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2015
A network of volunteers, the International Union for Conservation of Nature Commission on Education and Communication (CEC), present some reflections on their contributions towards the field of education for sustainability from 1992 to the present. Many CEC members have been thought leaders to this multidimensional field, and advocates for a more…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Environmental Education, Educational Practices, Reflection
Ravinet, Pauline – European Journal of Education, 2008
Beginning in the year 2000, higher education policies all over Europe were transformed by the launching and evolution of the Bologna Process, otherwise known as the process of creating a European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Initially, this process was flexible and informal, which makes the rapidity and scope of the changes it brought about…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, International Organizations
Gephart, Martha A.; Van Buren, Mark E. – Training and Development, 1996
Suggests that high-performance work systems create the synergy that lets companies gain and keep a competitive advantage. Identifies the components of high-performance work systems and critical action steps for implementation. Describes the results companies such as Xerox, Lever Brothers, and Corning Incorporated have achieved by using them. (JOW)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Corporations, Organizational Change, Program Implementation

Goutard, M. – International Journal of Early Childhood, 1992
Examines cooperative efforts among nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in France to implement the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Child. Describes collaborative efforts between NGO committees and government authorities, highlighting government experts' recommendations for changes in four areas of French law to conform to…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Childrens Rights, Cooperative Programs, Foreign Countries
Heflin, John F.; Douglas, Marcia – 1980
In this paper, the Policy Process Model developed by Charles O. Jones is adopted in order to analyze school desegregation policy in Portland, Oregon. A major focus of this case study is the interaction between the Portland Public School Board and two community groups (the Community Coalition for School Integration and the Black United Front) as…
Descriptors: Black Organizations, Board of Education Role, Community Organizations, Desegregation Effects
Vickers, Jeanne – 1980
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have a central role to play in mobilizing the political will of governments to change the present imbalance in the distribution, consumption, and control of the world's resources. In a time of world economic crisis, millions die unnecessarily every year for lack of food, shelter, and medical care. Thirty…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Community Action, Community Attitudes, Community Involvement
Chang, Paul Min Phang – 1980
The development of an off-campus program at the Science University in Penang, Malaysia, is described in this paper. The author sees this development as a case in which administrators mediated successfully in the development and implementation of an educational policy. The program was designed to provide off-campus study opportunities for employed…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Correspondence Study, Course Organization

Culnan, Mary J.; Bair, James H. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1983
This survey of potential impacts of office automation on organizational communication and productivity covers the following--(1) the relationship between office automation and organizational communication; (2) communication variables relevant to office automation; (3) benefits and caveats related to implementation of office automation. Thirty-four…
Descriptors: Automation, Information Networks, Information Systems, Needs
National 4-H Council, Chevy Chase, MD. – 2002
To commemorate 2002 as the centennial year of America's 4-H Movement, the National 4-H Council held a national conversation to identify ways of improving youth development programs. The conversation process included the following activities: 1,577 local conversations that yielded more than 10,000 specific action items; a review of those items at…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Cultural Pluralism, Definitions
International Bureau of Education, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1985
This working paper briefly reviews the history of the information activities of the International Bureau of Education (IBE) from its first consultative meeting in 1971 to the adoption in 1977 of Recommendation 71, which calls for the development of a worldwide information network in education based on the active participation of regional and…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Information Networks, Information Systems
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). General Information Programme. – 1985
Developing countries are becoming increasingly aware of the fact that specialized information is essential to their economic and social development, and that it is an indispensable factor in the rational use of natural resources, the development of human resources, scientific and technological advancement, and progress in agriculture, industry,…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Information Needs, Information Science

Raseroka, H. Kay – Information Development, 1992
Describes the establishment and development of the Standing Conference of Eastern, Central, and Southern African Librarians (SCECSAL) and assesses its effectiveness, particularly in terms of the implementation of conference resolutions by member library associations. The biennial conferences and published proceedings are discussed and suggestions…
Descriptors: Conference Proceedings, Conferences, Criticism, Developing Nations

Corbett, H. Dickson – Educational Leadership, 1982
A study of instructional change in three schools reveals that a change strategy should take advantage of existing communication networks. Where there is little interdependence among teachers, administrators need to encourage its growth and replace the egg crate form of organization with arrangements that increase teacher interaction. (MLF)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement, Instructional Innovation
Muse, Clyde – 1996
Arguing that workforce training is fundamental to the community college mission, this report discusses the necessity for re-examining related national policy and presents models for developing programs that meet current and future workforce training needs. Following an introduction highlighting community colleges' customer responsiveness,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Role, Community Colleges, Educational Change