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Minch, Michael – Childhood Education, 2019
Education for Global Peace (EGB) is a new organization that shares many of the interests and values of Childhood Education International. It is an organization, a community, and an approach that works to bend the arc toward justice and peace. This article provides a brief summary of the vision, mission, and objectives of EGP.
Descriptors: Peace, Educational Objectives, Teaching Methods, Global Approach
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Rosset, Peter – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2009
In this article, agrofuels are examined in the context of the world food price crisis and the "food sovereignty" proposal for addressing the crisis. Both short- and long-term causes of the crisis are examined, and while agrofuels are presently not a prime causal factor they are clearly contraindicated by the crisis. Food sovereignty,…
Descriptors: Food, Fuel Consumption, Crisis Intervention, Cost Indexes
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Arneberg, Marie; Bowitz, Einar – Peabody Journal of Education, 2006
International comparisons of data on expenditure on education use purchasing power parities for currency conversion and adjustment for price differences between countries to allow for volume comparisons. The resulting indicators are commonly interpreted as differences between countries in input volumes to the education sector-teachers, materials,…
Descriptors: Cost Indexes, Foreign Countries, Expenditures, Educational Finance
Bergeijk, Dijnandus van – UNESCO Journal of Information Science, Librarianship and Archives Administration, 1981
Discusses obstacles created by the multiplicity of languages for the transfer of knowledge and dissemination of documents, and describes the role of such clearinghouses as the International Translations Centre in Delft, Netherlands, in tracing existing translations and making them available. The 15 titles cited include two indexes of translated…
Descriptors: Clearinghouses, Communication (Thought Transfer), Global Approach, Indexes