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Fabrício de A. Pedron; John M. Galbraith; Bryant C. Scharenbroch; Marcos G. Pereira; Ademir Fontana – Natural Sciences Education, 2023
Soil judging contests are important activities to explore the soil science and its relation to the natural world. They have been held for many years and proved to be very efficient for the student's engagement, field practice, and learning. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the soil science societies worldwide had to adapt this activity to the virtual…
Descriptors: Soil Science, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Electronic Learning
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Palheta, Carlos Ewerton; Ciampolini, Vitor; Nunes, Eduardo Leal Goulart; Santos, Fernando; Milistetd, Michel – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2021
Background: In many countries, sport programs have been designed in order to enhance young people's lives through the Positive Youth Development (PYD) framework and the teaching of life skills. In Brazil, there is a growing presence of programs that seek to meet these goals. Therefore, we conducted a case study to understand how one specific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth Programs, Athletics, Guidelines
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Fochi, Paulo – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
This study presents the Observatory of Childhood Culture -- OBECI -- a professional development community in the making. It describes its origins, constitution and functioning. It reports some of its achievements at the level of promoting participatory pedagogies for children's learning and professionals' development. To make the transformation…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Interpersonal Relationship, Training, Child Care Centers
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Rabelo, Amanda Oliveira; Pereira, Graziela Raupp; Reis, Maria Amélia; Ferreira, António G. – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2015
Currently, sex education is in many countries a transversal subject, in which the school becomes a privileged place for the implementation of policies that aim at promoting "public health." Its design as a cross-cutting subject envisages fostering the dissemination of these subjects in all pedagogical and curricular fields; however, we…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Public Health, National Curriculum, Academic Standards
Hanemann, Ulrike – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
The paper analyses the status and characteristics of adult literacy campaigns and programmes since 2000. Global trends are analysed in terms of the ten key aspects of the suggested framework for successful literacy campaigns and programmes. Four case studies on major literacy campaigns in Brazil, India, South Africa and Indonesia are used to…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Publicity, Adult Literacy, Global Approach
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Kash, Sheri; Dessinger, Joan Conway – Performance Improvement, 2010
Paulo Freire argued that learning should be conversational, accessible, and centered on the experience of the participants. Freirean theory remains strong in adult education and has implications for human performance technology applications in such areas as online learning in terms of design, accessibility, and content, as well as performance…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Performance Technology, Educational Improvement