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Lunday, Elizabeth – APPA: Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers (NJ3), 2006
This report was issued from a 2006 meeting of individuals representing a variety of higher education institutions. The purpose of the meeting was to consider the future of higher education with particular attention to its built environment. The report provides a contextual overview of the changing landscape of higher education by identifying the…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Higher Education, Educational Change, Educational Trends
US Environmental Protection Agency, 2006
This guide contains examples of volunteer projects related to solid waste management. Volunteering provides the opportunity to enjoy new experiences, meet new people, learn new skills, and put ideas and talents to work. The stories included in this guide are: (1) Raucous Revelry and Recycling: Penn State Beaver Stadium Post-Game Recycling…
Descriptors: Volunteers, College Students, Rural Areas, High School Students
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Vezzoli, Carlo; Penin, Lara – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2006
Purpose: This paper aims to diffuse the concept of a multi-lateral learning process as a means to promote experimental didactics and research (and the cross-fertilization between these two activities) in the field of design of sustainable product-service systems (PSSs) and to consider the university campus as the locus for the design,…
Descriptors: Innovation, Internet, Teaching Methods, Sustainable Development
Trajkovski, Goran, Ed. – Information Science Publishing, 2006
"Diversity in Information Technology Education: Issues and Controversies" sheds light on the status of diversity in the field of IT education. It identifies a wide range of problems that educators face on a daily basis, and gives practical, applicable solutions, mainly by showcasing successful and replicable examples. The chapters in "Diversity in…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Educational Technology, Technology Education, Ethnic Diversity
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Shallcross, Tony; Loubser, Callie; Le Roux, Cheryl; O'Donoghue, Rob; Lupele, Justin – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2006
This paper focuses on a British Council funded Higher Education Link project involving three institutions--Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) in the UK and two South African institutions, the University of South Africa (UNISA) and Rhodes University. The link is a research and development project that has three main research strands:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research and Development, Sustainable Development, Teacher Education
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Ahamer, Gilbert – Simulation & Gaming, 2006
SURFING GLOBAL CHANGE (SGC) serves as a procedural shell for attaining sustainable solutions for any interdisciplinary issue and is intended for use in advanced university courses. The participants' activities evolve through five levels from individual argumentation to molding one's own views for the "common good." The paradigm of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lesson Plans, Ethics, Problem Based Learning
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Pather, Sulochini – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2006
This paper argues that in the pursuit of influencing inclusive education development, definitions of inclusion have been promulgated that remain a distant concept in the minds of the most significant partners in this process, i.e. teachers and schools. This is despite best efforts to share ideas for sustainable change based on such definitions.…
Descriptors: Educational History, Racial Bias, Blacks, Whites
Jerald, Craig – Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, 2005
This is the last in a series of four policy briefs to be published by The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement in 2005. The briefs are intended to provide fresh insights and useful advice to policymakers and school assistance providers. The first part of this policy brief breaks down the process of sustaining improvement and…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Achievement
Inter-American Foundation, Arlington, VA. – 2002
The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) is an independent foreign assistance agency of the United States government that provides grants to grassroots organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean. The IAF responds to innovative, participatory and sustainable self-help development projects proposed by grassroots groups and supporting organizations,…
Descriptors: Adult Farmer Education, Annual Reports, Community Action, Developing Nations
Natcher, David; Hickey, Cliff – 2000
Canada's federal and provincial governments have called upon the forest industry to ensure protection of Aboriginal rights and include Aboriginal communities in forest management. The challenge is to design frameworks for multi-party cooperation in which multiple values and interests can be accommodated. To promote such cooperation, two research…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Community Development, Conservation (Environment)
Snyder, Sarah A. – 1994
This teacher's guide presents teaching suggestions and presentation materials about the challenges faced by China and India as they work to sustain their population and ways of life without exhausting the environmental resources each has. The materials may be used as a unit on either nation or integrated into existing units of study. Student…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Asian Studies, Biodiversity, Chinese Culture
Martinez, Virginia – 2002
Based on the view that strong families create healthy local economies and that family support is key to helping families become self-sufficient, active participants in the marketplace, this workbook is part of a wider effort at Family Support America to apply the principles of family support and the strategies of community economic development to…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Change Strategies, Community Development, Community Involvement
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Hollis, Cynthia L. – Art Education, 1997
Surveys the work of several ecological artists, describes their work, and includes a brief rational for their activity. Examines the artwork of Joseph Beuys in Germany, Andy Goldsworthy in Scotland, as well as Mierle Ukeles, Mel Chin, David Hanson, Ana Mendieta, and Helen and Newton Harrison in the United States. (MJP)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Products, Artists
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Simon, Mary – Northern Review: A Multidisciplinary Journal of the Arts and Social Sciences of the North, 1998
Argues for a children and youth agenda as part of the Arctic Council's overall agenda, to include profiling the health of Arctic children; assessing health and developmental impacts of pollution and environmental threats on Arctic children; developing sustainable employment opportunities for Arctic youth; and expanding distance education, with a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Welfare, Distance Education, Educational Needs
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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
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