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Arzberger, Peter; Wienhausen, Gabriele; Abramson, David; Galvin, Jim; Date, Susumu; Lin, Fang-Pang; Nan, Kai; Shimojo, Shinji – Advances in Engineering Education, 2010
Recently we have seen an increase in the calls for universities and the education community to re-think undergraduate education and create opportunities that prepare students as effective global professionals. The key motivator is the need to build a research and industrial workforce that works collaboratively across cultures and disciplines to…
Descriptors: Sustainability, International Programs, Undergraduate Students, Science Careers
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Cohn, Jeffrey P. – BioScience, 1985
World Wildlife Fund affiliate RARE, Inc. (along with United States and Latin American agencies) is building a network of programs to develop, fund, and teach ecology courses for students from first grade through university levels. Latin American programs (elementary, college, national), teacher input, and exchange students are discussed. (DH)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Ecology, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
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Disinger, John F. – School Science and Mathematics, 1984
Reports on the outcomes of six national and two international conferences attempting to set guidelines for the continuing development of environmental education. Sponsors, issues addressed, and a summary of the results are included. Comments on the outcome of the 1978 Leadership Conference are also included. (JM)
Descriptors: College Science, Conferences, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
Musil, Caryn McTighe, Ed.; Hovland, Kevin, Ed. – Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2006
This issue of "Diversity Digest" grows out of one recent effort to raise the visibility of science in diversity and global learning initiatives. Articles in this issue include: (1) Science, Diversity, and Global Learning: Untangling Complex Problems (Kevin Hovland); (2) Breaking the Pyramid: Putting Science in the Core (Darcy Kelley);…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Global Approach, Higher Education, Cultural Pluralism
Communique, 1983
Delegations from Canada, Finland, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, and the United States agreed to the establishment of a network for cooperation among individuals engaged in problems peculiar to the circumpolar North. The Northern Science Network, established within the Unesco Man and the Biosphere Program, consists of three themes: studies on the…
Descriptors: Animals, Citizen Participation, Cooperative Programs, Ecology
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. – 1987
A combined meeting of the Tenth Regional Consultation Meeting on the Asia and Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) and the Regional Experts Meeting on the Regional Programme for the Universalization and Renewal of Primary Education and the Eradication of Illiteracy in Asia and the Pacific was held to provide an…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, International Cooperation
Cowan, Margaret E., Ed.; Stapp, William B., Ed. – 1982
Provided in this document are case studies of representative and exemplary innovative environmental education programs from various regions of the world (North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia/Oceania). The case studies provide information on the environment and environmental problems and concerns…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Programs, Conservation Education, Conservation (Environment)
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. – 1983
The report of the Eighth Regional Consultation Meeting on the Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) reviews APEID's activities for 1981-82 and proposed third-cycle program (1982-86), and includes group reports on universalization of primary education, promotion of scientific and technological creativity, and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Agricultural Education, Developing Nations, Distance Education
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and Oceania. – 1984
The report of the Ninth Regional Consultation Meeting on the Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) reviews activities and progress for 1982-83 in eight program areas: (1) universalization of education (access to education at first level by both formal and nonformal means), (2) promotion of scientific and technological…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Agricultural Education, Developing Nations, Educational Development