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Srivastava, Himanshu; Gupta, Ankush; Raveendran, Aswathy – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2022
The M(East) ward of Mumbai is home to one of Asia's largest open landfill sites. Waste, therefore, is a source of livelihood for millions of people living in the vicinity of this landfill site. In this article, we analyze the educational discourse on waste in the schools of the M(East) ward to understand how it is positioned with respect to the…
Descriptors: Sanitation, Wastes, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
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Singh, Amandeep; Tiwari, Rupasi; Panda, Pratikshya; Kour, Gurpreet; Dutt, Triveni – Cogent Education, 2022
The current study was conducted to analyse the sources of information utilized by dairy farmers of rural Punjab for obtaining information on organic waste management. A total of 80 farmers (40 each, small and large) were selected for the study. Results revealed that small farmers had a low level of information source utilization whereas, large…
Descriptors: Indians, Agricultural Occupations, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
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Venugopal, Pingali; Kour, Harwinder – Industry and Higher Education, 2021
Human production and consumption activities are depleting the earth's resources faster than they are being replenished. The Global Footprint network estimates "Earth Overshoot Day 2020" (the day the use of natural resources during the year crosses the regeneration capacity for the year) to be 22 August. A shift from linear to circular…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Natural Resources
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Karunakaran, Ilavenil; Thirumalaikolundusubramanian, Ponniah; Nalinakumari, Sheela Das – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2017
Professionalism and ethics have gained widespread recognition as competencies to be fulfilled, taught, and assessed within medical education. The role of the anatomy course in developed nations has evolved over time and now encompasses multiple domains, including knowledge, skills, and the inculcation of professionalism and ethics. The Medical…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Medical Education, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
Narayanareddy, Rajyashree – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The southern Indian city of Bangalore is extolled as India's "Silicon Valley," emerging over the past decade as a premier site for capital flows into India's Information Technology (IT) sector. In the dominant narrative of globalization Bangalore is lauded as an aspiring "global city" that attracts sizeable quantities of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Conservation (Environment), Sustainability
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Jain, Suresh; Pant, Pallavi – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to put forth a model for implementation of an environmental management system (EMS) in institutes of higher education in India. Design/methodology/approach: The authors carried out initial environmental review (IER) and strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis to identify the major…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Models, Energy Conservation