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Vasilije Ivanovic – ProQuest LLC, 2024
We are becoming more and more aware of the marks our human existence is leaving on our global environment: the Anthropocene as discourse of that awareness is turning into a living and lived-in reality. I argue that such discourse cannot remain the purview of the natural and social sciences alone: culture must be recognized in its pivotal role of…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Science Fiction, Teaching Methods, Ecology
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Kim, Gapcheol – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2023
This study aims to articulate how the language of the geography curriculum privileges modernist discourses of global citizenship at the expense of others. Drawing on the work of two critical scholars, empirical data from South Korea reveals how geography education professionals (GEPs) engaged closely with the (re)production of geographical…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Global Approach, Citizenship, Foreign Countries
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Riikka Suhonen; Antti Rajala; Hannele Cantell; Arto Kallioniemi – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
In the context of global crises, the priorities of vocational education and training (VET) need to be reconsidered. VET should educate critically reflective global citizens who are capable of acting to create a more just and sustainable world both in their workplaces and in society at large. This study examines VET teachers' views on addressing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Citizenship Education, World Problems
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Lentz, Alex; Buffington, Melanie L. – Art Education, 2020
Activism and art have been intertwined for many years. For instance, songs including "A Change is Gonna Come" (Cooke, 1964), "We Shall Overcome" (Tindley, 1900), and "Freedom Highway" (The Staples Singers, 1965) were an important part of the Civil Rights movement. Further, protest imagery, usually in the form of…
Descriptors: Activism, Artists, Foreign Countries, World Problems
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Gabriel Romero Karlsson; Malba Barahona – Cogent Education, 2024
This study investigates the development of literary competences among EFL preservice teachers (PSTs) through their engagement with picturebooks in an EFL teacher education program in Santiago, Chile. Using qualitative content analysis, the study examines the pedagogical proposals and reading sessions of 12 PSTs to identify the types of literary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literature Appreciation, Competence, Language Teachers
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Velda McCune; Jenny Scoles; Sharon Boyd; Andy Cross; Pete Higgins; Rebekah Tauritz – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Policy makers increasingly call on higher education to prepare learners for challenges such as global health emergencies or ecological crises. These can be understood as 'wicked problems', which are unbounded, complex and resist simplistic definition. Wicked problems involve stakeholders with incompatible value positions and attempted solutions…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, College Faculty, Undergraduate Study, Humanities
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Baranova, Jurate; Duobliene, Lilija – Ethics and Education, 2020
The article reflects upon the possibility of educating sensitivity to the pain of the different Other by using feature cinema. The authors rely on the methodology suggested by Stanley Louis Cavell and Andrew Klevan, and also on the suggestions and conclusions by William B. Russell, III and Stewart Waters. The authors of this article reflected upon…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Films, High School Students, Ethics
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Urbanska, Magdalena; Charzynski, Przemyslaw; Gadsby, Helen; Novák, Tibor József; Sahin, Salih; Yilmaz, Monica Denise – Education Sciences, 2022
Teaching geography creates an opportunity for the transfer of knowledge about environmental problems and ways of solving them. Teachers from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Turkey, and the United Kingdom indicated strengths and weaknesses of physical geography as well as the selected geographical concepts of: Maps/Cartography,…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Environmental Education
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Usher, Joe; Dolan, Anne M. – Irish Educational Studies, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic is an unanticipated event that has exposed human fragility in an interconnected and interdependent world. While impacts are of a global magnitude, they have been felt at the most local of levels. Across the world pupils' daily lives and experiences have been directly impacted by government-imposed measures and restrictions…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary Education, Geography Instruction
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Heasly, Berise – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2020
Given the political, societal, scientific and geographical changes emerging in our twenty-first century world, we need to apply refreshed innovative processes in universal education. By applying such processes for universally refreshed quality of life norms, this paper applies the results of my Philosophy of Education thesis to today's conditions,…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, 21st Century Skills, Decision Making, Educational Innovation
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Sharp, Emma L.; Fagan, Joseph; Kah, Melanie; McEntee, Marie; Salmond, Jennifer – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2021
"Wicked problems" are complex to understand and challenging to teach. Our experience of teaching about environmental concerns in Aotearoa New Zealand suggests how these concepts are taught is more important for student learning than the nature of wicked problems themselves. By offering opportunities for students to co-develop their own…
Descriptors: World Problems, Concept Teaching, Environmental Education, Geography Instruction
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Moraes, Silvia Elisabeth; de Almeida Freire, Ludmila – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2017
This article discusses the formation of a "planetary citizenship" based on the "ecology of knowledges" perspective in Brazilian universities. It is informed by the authors' experiences and the partial results from a research project entitled "Planetary citizenship and the ecology of knowledges: Interdisciplinarity,…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Okada, Alexandra; Kowalski, Raquel Pasternak Glitz; Kirner, Claudio; Torres, Patrícia Lupion – Interactive Learning Environments, 2019
Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is a contemporary approach to promote science with and for society for aligning scientific innovations with societal needs. Literature about education for RRI is limited because it is not a widespread practice at the moment. To explore this gap, this study examines teachers' views about a novel inquiry…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Games, Computer Simulation
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Cheng, Xiaoqiao; Pellegrini, Marta; Zhou, Longjun; Cheung, Alan C. K. – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2020
The pandemic of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused an immeasurable impact on most countries and regions globally, especially in education. The shutdown of schools and classes in most countries and regions from pandemic has greatly affected education in the fight against COVID-19. The implementation of large-scale online education has…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Disease Control
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Bangay, Colin – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2016
This paper explores the potential contribution of education to sustainable development. Drawing on recent evidence it argues that education could play a stronger role--a position reinforced by the new sustainable development goals (SDGs). However, securing this contribution will have to be achieved in an era where educational delivery will be…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Teaching Methods, Climate
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