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Varga, Bretton A., Ed.; Monreal, Timothy, Ed.; Christ, Rebecca C., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2023
Posthumanism has seen a surge across the humanities and offers a unique perspective, seeking to illuminate the role that more-than-human actors (e.g., affect, artifacts, objects, flora, fauna, other materials) play in the human experience . This book challenges the field of social studies education to think differently about the precarious status…
Descriptors: Humanism, World Views, Social Change, Social Studies
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Costantakos, Chrysie M. – Journal of Home Economics, 1977
Technological advances and family modifications that have taken place in American society have been harmful to the elderly. Home economics has a unified, holistic, and interdisciplinary approach that qualifies it professionally to stand as a forerunner in a movement to promote a society that recognizes the needs of all segregated and deprived…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Educational Responsibility, Family (Sociological Unit), Home Economics Education
American Fletcher National Bank and Trust Co., Indianapolis, IN. – 1983
Designed for high school economics students as a public service project of the American Fletcher National Bank, the booklet examines corporate philanthropy in the context of President Reagan's "New Federalism," a program designed to return social welfare and human service programs to state and local government and the business community.…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Community Action, Economics Education, High Schools
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Nolan, Lucinda A. – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2005
The life and work of John Lancaster Spalding focused on the importance of Catholic ideals of life and education in the development of the human person and society in order to fit them to the high purpose of participating in God's reign on earth and preparation for humanity's ultimate end--eternal life with God. Following a brief biographical…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Social Action, Role of Education, Educational Change
Delp, Linda, Ed.; Outman-Kramer, Miranda, Ed.; Schurman, Susan J., Ed.; Wong, Kent, Ed. – 2002
These 28 essays recount popular education's history and its multiple uses in the labor movement today: to organize the unorganized, to develop new leaders and activists, and to strengthen labor and community alliances. They explore its other facets: theater and culture, economics education, workplace safety and health, and classroom use and…
Descriptors: Activism, Adult Education, Collective Bargaining, Community Involvement
Senesh, Lawrence – 1972
Two government documents, "Goals for Americans" and "Toward Balanced Growth: Quantity with Quality" (ED 055 009), together with previous documents, serve as the information source and basis of this guide. The "Goals for Americans" report, initiated by President Eisenhower's Commission in 1960, identified social…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Consumer Economics, Curriculum Development, Economic Development
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Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; Ermenc, Klara Skubic, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Chigisheva, Oksana, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
This volume contains papers submitted to the 12th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Sofia and Nessebar, Bulgaria, in June 2014, and papers submitted to the 2nd International Partner Conference, organized by the International Research Centre 'Scientific Cooperation,' Rostov-on-Don,…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Global Approach, Competence, Comparative Education