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Elliot, Dely Lazarte; Reid, Kate; Baumfield, Vivienne – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
This paper investigates the phenomenological experiences of academic acculturation of selected non-British post-doctoral academics with a retrospective focus on their experiences as PhD students. The participants came from different disciplines and countries of origin to pursue several years of postgraduate research in different British higher…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Postdoctoral Education, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students
Cloete, Elsie – Children's Literature in Education, 2009
Jenny Robson's "Savannah 2216 AD", a dark, futuristic novel for young adults, provides a strong critique on much of the world's predilection for saving Africa's animals at the expense of those human communities who are perceived to be in the way of the preservation of the continent's remaining wild spaces. Using Robson's novel as…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Foreign Countries, Novels, Animals
Ponti, Luigi; Gutierrez, Andrew Paul – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2009
In light of the recently developed European Union (EU) Biofuels Strategy, the literature is reviewed to examine (a) the coherency of biofuel production with the EU nonindustrial vision of agriculture, and (b) given its insufficient land base, the implications of a proposed bioenergy pact to grow biofuel crops in the developing world to meet EU…
Descriptors: Land Use, Foreign Countries, Climate, Agriculture
Awokoya, Janet Tolulope; Clark, Christine – Multicultural Education, 2008
The number of immigrants of color residing in the United States reached 13.5 million in March 2005, the highest in U.S. history. By 2010 the number of Black immigrants and their children is estimated to reach five million, and will represent twelve percent of the Black population in the United States. To date, the majority of Black immigrants in…
Descriptors: Educational Development, History, Foreign Countries, Educational Researchers
Brown, Lester R.; Wolf, Edward C. – 1985
This paper highlights some of the themes that any successful strategy to reverse the decline of Africa must embrace. Africa is a continent experiencing a breakdown in the relationship between people and their natural support systems. Famine and the threat of famine are among the manifestations of this breakdown. This decline can be reversed. To do…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Conservation (Environment), Ecological Factors, Economic Factors
Cohen, Amy – 2000
The Water in Africa Project was realized over a 2-year period by a team of Peace Corps volunteers, World Wise Schools (WWS) classroom teachers, and WWS staff members. As part of an expanded, detailed design, resources were collected from over 90 volunteers serving in African countries, photos and stories were prepared, and standards-based learning…
Descriptors: Curriculum Enrichment, Developing Nations, Diseases, Ecological Factors
Johns, Maria – New Ground, 1992
Compares present agriculture practices to permaculture farming techniques, presents a historical perspective of permaculture and where these techniques are being successfully practiced around the world. Inserts (vignettes) enumerate the principles of permaculture and the background of Bill Mollison who conceptualized this farming practice. (MCO)
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Agricultural Trends, Agriculture, Conservation (Environment)
Garb, Gillian, Ed.; Baltz, Davis, Ed. – World Education, Inc. Reports, 1991
This issue contains five articles that address environmental concerns. "Poverty and Environmental Decline" (Alan Durning) analyzes accelerating environmental decline and discusses the need for action at every level to reverse global deterioration. "Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Made Easy" (Cesar Galvan, Peter Kenmore)…
Descriptors: Agricultural Trends, Disease Incidence, Ecological Factors, Environmental Influences
Spicer, Brian, Ed.; And Others – 1973
Part of a geography series which stresses understanding of the environment through mastery of specific skills and concepts, the secondary level textbook examines how and why different environments have changed through time. The book is presented in eight chapters organized around the three main themes of change in local areas, land use, and the…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Area Studies, Communism, Ecological Factors
Brown, Lester R.; And Others – 1986
The third of three annual assessments concentrating on the relationship between the world economy and its environmental support systems, this edition expands earlier themes on how economic demands of a world population approaching 5 billion affects the earth's natural systems and resources to embrace threats to security as well. The first of 11…
Descriptors: Agricultural Trends, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Disarmament