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Julie Doyle; Sybille Chiari; Persephone Pearl; Keith Ellis; Sonja Völler; Christopher Shaw; Bernd Hezel – Environmental Education Research, 2024
This article brings climate communication approaches to transformational climate learning by critically evaluating an experimental climate communication retreat that brought 20 young adults from across Europe together in Austria to co-create climate communications as a constitutive dimension of climate action. Structured around the…
Descriptors: Climate, Young Adults, Communication Skills, Transformative Learning
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Parvazian, Somayeh; Gill, Judith; Chiera, Belinda – SAGE Open, 2017
This article reports an analysis of the relationship between women's increased participation in higher education and other recent social changes over the last four decades. To date, women's increased involvement in higher education has been studied as either a force for or a consequence of other sociocultural changes. Drawing on data from key…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Females, Sociocultural Patterns, Statistics
Brown, Mabel Ann, Ed. – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2018
"The Shifting Global World of Youth and Education" explores how increasing migration and population changes are having an unprecedented impact on global education. Given that the number of children of migrant background is growing internationally, there is a need for increasing awareness of the educational attainment and cultural…
Descriptors: Migration, Population Trends, Global Education, Educational Practices
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Kwiek, Marek – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This paper focuses on a generational change taking place in the Polish academic profession: a change in behaviors and attitudes between two groups of academics. One was socialized to academia under the communist regime (1945-1989) and the other entered the profession in the post-1989 transition period. Academics of all age groups are beginning to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Productivity, Teacher Attitudes, Social Systems
Schofield, Kaye – 1999
Globalization is an evolving concept characterized by economic, technological, social, and political dimensions. Vocational education and training (VET) practitioners and the VET system must make more conscious efforts to lead thinking about the social dimension of globalization. The mission of Australian VET today is largely couched in economic…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context