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Berik, Günseli; Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen – Journal of Economic Education, 2023
An undergraduate course in development economics presents an ideal opportunity to introduce students to the importance of gender differences in economic outcomes. The authors of this article argue that a systematic integration of gender into development economics courses based on standard textbooks is feasible and desirable. They provide a…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Teaching Methods, Gender Differences, Economic Development
Simon Pratt-Adams, Editor; Mark Warnes, Editor; Elaine Brown, Editor – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025
This interdisciplinary book uses key examples and specific case studies from the 'Trailblazers' of Anglia Ruskin University, UK, to address the successes and challenges experienced during the creation, development, and running of breadth modules. It's been carefully written to support anyone looking to implement this innovative method into their…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Higher Education, Sustainability, Poverty
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Hjorth Warlenius, Rikard – Journal of Environmental Education, 2022
More than a decade ago, critical ecopedagogue Richard Kahn expressed his fears and hopes regarding Education for sustainable development (ESD). He feared that ESD would be short lived and marginalized and would develop an instrumental pedagogy of one-sided transmission of knowledge, yet hoped for ESD to encompass three types of…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Poverty, Sustainable Development, Disadvantaged
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Tsakeni, Maria; Jita, Loyiso – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
In the wake of the United Nations' Agenda 2030 on sustainability, this study problematizes how conditions in multiple-deprived science classrooms are intricately connected to the sustainable development goals (SDGs). This narrative inquiry design research consisting of one participant, describes how the conditions of multiple-deprivation in…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Science Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers
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Buchbinder, Dina – Childhood Education, 2022
As we work to educate our children in effective ways, supporting their efforts to make a positive difference reaps benefits for both students and society.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Sustainable Development, Play, Trauma
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Bekteshi, Edita; Xhaferi, Brikena – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of Sustainable Development (SD) and its goals to the students of the Faculty of Education, future teachers, in order to become skilled and knowledgeable and then introduce these Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to their students. As such, this study tries to link the concept of English…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Abadzi, Helen – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
Reading programs for low-income populations often give disappointing results. Failures may be partly due to a neglect of practice in decoding letters. Visual stimuli are best learned symbol by symbol, with pattern analogies and much practice to unite smaller components and speed up identification. The prerequisite for comprehending volumes of text…
Descriptors: Poverty, Feedback (Response), Teaching Methods, Reading Programs
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Ngaka, Willy; Graham, Ross; Masaazi, Fred Masagazi; Anyandru, Elly Moses – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2016
This qualitative case study focuses on a volunteer-led local NGO in Uganda to examine how integrating generations, cultures, and languages is enhancing literacy learning to help ethnically and linguistically diverse rural communities survive in the prevailing globally competitive neoliberal environment. Immersing the study in the social practices…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Literacy, Nongovernmental Organizations, Qualitative Research
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Naude, Mariana; Meier, Corinne – South African Journal of Education, 2019
Foundation phase teachers in South African schools follow a socio-constructivist approach to the teaching and learning of mathematics, which entails that learners experiment freely with concepts and are encouraged to communicate and share their thoughts and ideas. In an effort to understand the impact that the physical learning environment, such…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Physical Environment, Case Studies, Teaching Methods
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Uhlenwinkel, Anke – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2017
"Young people on the global stage: their education and influence" is an EU-funded project that involves teachers and students from three European countries (Britain, Germany and Spain) and teachers from several African countries with a focus on The Gambia and Kenya. The main aim of the project is to promote an understanding of some of…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Teaching Methods, Environmental Education, Sustainability
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Doerr, Neriko Musha – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2015
Culture is not a predetermined, static, bounded unit. Both its boundaries and what is considered cultural difference are constructed through social processes. Ray McDermott and Herve Varenne (1995) argue that only certain differences are noticed, usually according to what is regarded as meaningful difference in one's own society. For example, in a…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Social Influences, Social Environment, Ethnography
UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2015
The UNESCO-UNEVOC Global Forum "Skills for Work and Life Post-2015" took up the vital topics of youth, skills and greening TVET in the context of the post-2015 development agenda. 2015 marks the end of the Education for All (EFA) initiative, and global and regional debates are sharpening the focus of discussions geared towards setting…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Daily Living Skills, Vocational Education, Technical Education
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Pavlova, Margarita – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2013
When education for sustainable development (ESD) emerged as part of the educational agenda in the international arena, it was associated with significant shifts in the educational debate about the purpose and nature of education and with the need to respond to crises caused by the modern idea of progress. Scientists from different fields warn…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Sustainable Development, Ethics, Educational Research
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Tabucanon, Mario T.; Tanaka, Aurea Christine; Aipanjiguly, Sampreethi – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2011
To celebrate the two-year anniversary of the founding of ProSPER.Net--the Promotion of Sustainability in Postgraduate Education and Research Network--members convened on 5-9 July 2010 in Shanghai, China, at a meeting hosted by Tongji University, a founding member. ProSPER.Net is an alliance of 21 higher education institutions in the Asia-Pacific…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development
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Bhola, H. S. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2009
In outlining the framework offered at the UNESCO Regional Conference in support of Global Literacy (New Delhi, November 2007), it was pointed out that concepts of poverty, sustainable development and particularly of literacy and innovation have themselves been in continuous re-construction. An analysis of the context and condition for literacy…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Poverty, Illiteracy, Innovation
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