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Eames, Chris; Ritchie, Jenny; Birdsall, Sally; Milligan, Andrea – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2020
This article provides a critical commentary on the recently released learning programme, "Climate Change: Prepare Today, Live Well Tomorrow" (Climate Change programme). The Climate Change programme is sorely needed in this time of climate emergency and we believe it to be a great start in guiding teachers in this important work. Here we…
Descriptors: Climate, Environmental Education, Well Being, Teaching Methods
Fensham, Peter J. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2011
The globalized nature of modern society has generated a number of pressures that impact internationally on countries' policies and practices of science education. Among these pressures are key issues of health and environment confronting global science, global economic control through multi-national capitalism, comparative and competitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Global Approach, Science and Society
Mah, Adeline Shi Hui; Yeo, Marie – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2016
Averil Coxhead is widely known for developing the Academic Word List, a list of 570 word families associated with great frequency in academic texts. This list has been particularly useful to teachers of English as a Second Language as well as independent learners in tertiary education. She has also developed a Science-based word list (Coxhead and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Word Lists, Word Frequency
McKinley, Elizabeth – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2008
The use of hybridity today suggests a less coherent, unified and directed process than that found in the Enlightenment science's cultural imperialism, but regardless of this neither concept exists outside power and inequality. Hence, hybridity raises the question of the terms of the mixture and the conditions of mixing. Cultural hybridity produced…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Women Scientists, Foreign Countries, Science Education

Fensham, Peter J. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1985
Providing science education for all students is a challenge for educators around the world. In an effort to help educators answer this challenge, earlier attempts at providing science for all are examined. (RM)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Environment, Educational History, Educational Needs

McKinley, Elizabeth – Research in Science Education, 1996
Outlines the background of the curriculum development work in Aotearoa, New Zealand, with respect to the indigenous Maori people and science education. Expresses concern about the fitting of one cultural framework into another and raises questions about the approach used in the development of the science curriculum. Discusses implications for…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations

Taber, Keith S. – Physics Education, 2000
Advocates teaching as a research-based activity. Describes the national curriculum in English Schools and compares it with curricular development in New Zealand. Recommends inservice training (InSET) to ensure teachers' confidence in presenting scientific ideas. (Contains 25 references.) (YDS)
Descriptors: Biology, Chemistry, Educational Research, Foreign Countries

Fleer, Marilyn – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 1996
Discusses the need for early childhood professionals to depart from a narrow framing of early childhood science experiences based on Western perspectives and to seek out a spectrum of cultural views that influence children's scientific thinking. Describes differences between Western and Aboriginal science and promotes broadened understandings of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Cultural Background, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences

Kirby, Michael D. – Government Information Quarterly, 1986
Examines developments in information technology that might endanger individual privacy and legislative responses to these threats by the English-speaking democracies, i.e., Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Guidelines for the responsible use of information technologies are proposed. (CLB)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Civil Liberties, Democracy, Developed Nations

Koopman-Boyden, Peggy G. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1985
Suggests that the central issue family policy must address is dependent/independent relationships. The concept of dependency also can be used as the unit of analysis and as a means of integrating family policy with public policy, thus allowing wider theoretical integration. (Author/BL)
Descriptors: Definitions, Family (Sociological Unit), Foreign Countries, Social Science Research

Turner, Harold – Science and Education, 1996
Critiques Mahner and Bunge's disjunction between the religious convictions and the scientific work of scientists. Discusses the historical background and the current positive interaction between science and theology. (Author/JRH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Religion, Religious Education
Gregory, J. G. – 1982
This paper describes why freedom of information (FOI) is important to scientists, the restrictions which the Official Secrets Act of 1951 places upon release of information by public officials in New Zealand, reasons for covert official resistance to FOI as suggested by information science literature, and how changes in the economic management of…
Descriptors: Disclosure, Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination, Information Science
Adey, David, Comp.; And Others – 1987
Fifteen papers from the University of South Africa's Conference on Distance Education are presented on professional education and practical training. They include: "Essential and Professional Education of Physics Teachers in Poland" (Kazimierz A. Badziag); "Vocational Teaching at a Distance: The New Zealand Perspective" (Dave…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration Education, Correspondence Study, Distance Education

Haythornthwaite, Josephine A.; White, Frances C. P. – Education for Information, 1991
Reports results of a survey conducted by the British Library to identify distance education packages relating to library and information science (LIS) education in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Resistance to distance education in LIS is discussed and attitudes toward distance education are…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Information Science Education
Chapman, David James – 1999
This paper examines the history of environmental education in New Zealand over the last fifteen years, reviewing that history in the context of concurrent changes in the school curriculum and wider society. Preliminary conclusions concerning the potential role of environmental education as a socially transformative agent are developed as a lens…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational History, Environmental Education
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