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The Cultural and Ecological "Worlds" of Central Asia
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Quigley, Cassie; Allspaw, Kathleen – Science Scope, 2011
With a grant through Indiana University's Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center, the authors developed an online, five-week unit that discusses the cultural and ecological "worlds" of central Asia, specifically the countries of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. There are two main ideas…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Studies, Cultural Awareness, Ecology
Global Hubs and Global Nodes: Challenging Traditional Views of Communities, Clusters and Competitiveness
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Seline, Richard – Community College Journal, 2006
Five trends are emerging that will not only change the role of human capital in the United States but will also challenge the legacy system of workforce development, skills and competency-focused institutions, and assuredly, community colleges. Workforce investment boards, for example, are currently geographically constrained in environments that…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Labor Force Development, Competition, Science and Society
Teacher Education for Sustainability. II. Two Teacher Education Projects from Asia and the Pacific.
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Fien, John; Maclean, Rupert – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2000
Describes two teacher education projects that invited teacher educators to consider the imperatives of education for sustainability, to critique, trial, and share their work, and to interact with members of the international and national community in order to find ways of addressing the global crisis of education, environment, and sustainability.…
Descriptors: Ecology, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
How Do Learners in Different Cultures Related to Science and Technology? Results and Perspectives from the Project Rose (The Relevance of Science Education)
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Sjøberg, Svein; Schreiner, Camilla – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2005
The position of science and technology (S&T) in a society changes through time and from one society to another. In developing countries, many young people would like to opt for a career in S&T, while many rich, highly-developed countries notice declining recruitment of students to science and technology studies. In this article, the…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cross Cultural Studies, Science and Society, Technology
New Trends in Integrated Science Teaching, Volume VI.
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1990
This book is the sixth in a series of publications on the subject of integrated science teaching and is based on the proceedings of a consultation meeting held on the theme "Recent Developments in Integrated Science Teaching Worldwide". The meeting was organized by the Australian National Commission for Unesco, in cooperation with the…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
An Emerging Knowledge-Based Economy in China? Indicators from OECD Databases. OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers, 2004/4
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Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2004
The main objective of this Working Paper is to show a set of indicators on the knowledge-based economy for China, mainly compiled from databases within EAS, although data from databases maintained by other parts of the OECD are included as well. These indicators are put in context by comparison with data for the United States, Japan and the EU (or…
Descriptors: Industry, Intellectual Property, Innovation, Education Work Relationship