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DeKock, Anita – 1989
Recognizing that global education did not speak with one voice, that global educators could not even always find ways to speak to each other, and that this internal situation made it very confusing for those outside the field, the conference planners brought together a group of global educators to discuss what assumptions and beliefs should…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Critical Thinking, Cultural Education, Democracy
National Endowment for Democracy, Washington, DC. – 1989
Divided into seven sections, the presentations contained in these proceedings give an international perspective on the growth of democracy in the world, and the many obstacles that might inhibit it. The first section, on Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union contains papers from four East Block scholars who discuss the rise of democracy in communist…
Descriptors: Communism, Democracy, Democratic Values, Developing Nations

Raywid, Mary Anne – Issues in Education, 1986
Examines management approaches in ethical terms, arriving at numerous criteria applicable to educational administration. Discusses scientific management, morally neutral concepts, hyperrationalization, tightening of controls, and the business/industry model as having eclipsed or confused the moral dimensions of education. Calls for enlarged moral…
Descriptors: Criteria, Decentralization, Democracy, Elementary Secondary Education
Goodlad, John I., Ed.; McMannon, Timothy J., Ed. – 1997
The National Network for Educational Renewal (NNER) was established in 1986 to put into practice the belief that the improvement of schooling and the renewal of teacher education must proceed simultaneously. This book contains a collection of papers presented at the NNER conference held in New York City in November 1995. The book also includes a…
Descriptors: Democracy, Democratic Values, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Goldstein, Walter – 1977
This report summarizes the views expressed at the Fifth Wingspread Conference on the will of Western nations to survive. It is intended to help readers develop an understanding of contemporary Europe and the implications which developments there may have for the United States. Given the position of the United States as a world power, it follows…
Descriptors: Communism, Democracy, Democratic Values, European History
Eisenberg, Diane U., Ed. – 1983
Designed as a resource for community program planners and teachers, this publication reports the highlights of a national conference on civic values in the technological age and provides guidelines for planning community discussions on the topic. Following an introduction, four sections of conference highlights are presented in a uniform format:…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Civics, Community Programs
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Hamburg (Germany). Inst. for Education. – 1999
The workshop, "Adult Learning, Democracy, and Peace," had the important role of examining the relationship among adult learning, democracy, citizenship, gender, civil society, and a culture of peace. The speakers expressed a variety of opinions on the issue of globalization. Some rejected it as aggravating existing social tensions and inequalities…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Citizenship
Nemeth, Balazs, Ed.; Poggeler, Franz, Ed. – 2002
This book, which focuses on how personality, societal values and politics have influenced the mission of adult education, contains 34 papers originally presented at a 2000 conference on the history of adult education. Following a Foreword (Poggeler) and Preface (Nemeth) the papers are: "The Globalization of Adult Education and the One World…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Agricultural Education, Andragogy