College and university educators seek to increase student engagement in learning content, skills, and applications. To achieve this goal, we used transformative teaching techniques in the design of a World Challenge: a two-week, group-based, reflective course for sophomores leading their own learning in developing creative solutions to the problem…

The people of the world must unite to deal with the major problems facing them--nuclear war, overpopulation, pollution, hunger, and despoliation of the planet. (Editor)

This is a description of the programs and projects of the new organization called the United Nations University (UNU). The research orientation of the organization is to meet the need for mobilizing scholarly resources in solving global problems. Programs focus on hunger, land use, and energy. (Author/SA)

Gifted children and youth must be sensitized to the major problems faced by world societies, including poverty, famine, nuclear annihilation, and quality of life. Education for peace, attention to the moral and ethical dimensions of school subjects, futures education, problem-solving, and networking with gifted children in other nations are…

Emphasizing a problem-solving perspective, the document investigates the world food scene. Simply defined, the world food problem is the apparent inability of the world's people to feed themselves adequately and consistently. Intended for use by college level geography instructors as they develop courses on human uses of the environment, the…