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Olcon, Katarzyna; Gilbert, Dorie J.; Pulliam, Rose M. – Journal of Experiential Education, 2021
Background: The ability to question global structures and analyze one's own positionality in relation to economic, political, and social forces is essential for college graduates. Although study abroad programs claim to develop students into global citizens, most studies do not critically examine student learning about global inequalities.…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Critical Thinking, Reflection, World Problems
Hartrich, Catherine – Momentum, 2000
Describes Frontiers of Justice as a program that acquaints educators with third world countries. Narrates one educator's trip to Ghana, where ethnic conflict, lack of education, and AIDS are prevalent. States that food distribution has been linked with education especially for girls; asserts that if girls are educated they will educate their…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Catholic Educators, Developing Nations, Disease Control
Abegaz, Berhanu, Ed. – Studies in Third World Societies, 1986
The four papers in this volume discuss various facets of the poverty-demography interaction: the rationale for the desired family size of the poor, the problems of attaining such size, the effect of family size/structure on household economy, and the future well-being of the children of the poor. "Mass Poverty, Demography, and Development…
Descriptors: Children, Demography, Developing Nations, Development
Merrill, Robert S., Ed.; Willner, Dorothy, Ed. – 1983
The fundamental theme of these papers is what constitutes the common good and the issues and problems related to the understanding of that common good. Several anthropologists and a political scientist explore this theme in various geographic settings and from many theoretical and methodological perspectives. Among the countries and cultures…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Crime