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Ola Erstad Ed.; Bente E. Hagtvet Ed.; James V. Wertsch Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2024
A number of scholars within the social sciences and the humanities have elaborated on the cultural and psychological dimensions of living through social, economic and political crises. Still, developments during the last decade have created an awareness that something fundamental of the human condition is at stake, especially for the young…
Descriptors: Social Change, Social Problems, Culture Conflict, Role of Education
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Lukasz Tomczyk Ed.; Francisco D. Guillén-Gámez Ed.; Julio Ruiz-Palmero Ed.; Akhmad Habibi Ed. – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2024
This book offers an expert perspective on two key phenomena in the development of the information society, namely digital inclusion and digital exclusion. Despite the intensive digitalization of various areas in human activity, the lack of proper information and communications technology (ICT) literacy, the lack of access to high-speed Internet,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Access to Computers, Inclusion, Information Technology
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Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo, Ed.; Thompson, Christiane, Ed. – Educational Governance Research, 2022
This book discusses the central role education and research play in generating both value and comparative advantages in the (imageries of) global competition, competitiveness and transnational value chains. They are seen as "assets" placed at the forefront of developments that are arguably reshaping individuals, society and economy. This…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Global Approach, Competition, Economic Factors
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Bocock, Piers; Collison, Chris – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2022
Effective collaboration around knowledge management and organizational learning is a key contributor to improving the impact of international development work for the world's most vulnerable people. But how can it be proven? With only 10 years from the target date for the Sustainable Development Goals, nine of the world's most influential agencies…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Agency Cooperation, Organizational Learning, Global Approach
Porfilio, Brad J., Ed.; Viola, Michael J., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
Illuminating hip-hop as an important cultural practice and a global social movement, this collaborative project highlights the emancipatory messages and cultural work generated by the organic intellectuals of global hip-hop. Contributors describe the social realities--globalization, migration, poverty, criminalization, and racism--youth are…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Critical Theory, Multicultural Education, Cultural Activities
Richardson, John M., Jr., Ed. – 1984
This compilation of articles, photographs, commentaries, diagrams, and political cartoons presents positive, practical, and action-oriented core ideas on which to base future-oriented thinking and creative activity. The first of 10 parts presents articles on traditional American principles, ways of facing the future, America's character and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Coping, Economically Disadvantaged, Ethics
Cleveland, Harlan; Wilson, Thomas W., Jr. – 1978
Five essays analyze human needs and values in relation to population and economic growth. The first, "The Trouble With Growth," discusses current problems: the benefits of growth are unfairly distributed; growth can damage the environment and waste resources; unproductive and dysfunctional growth is not distinguished from productive and socially…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Ethics
National Committee on United States-China Relations, New York, NY. – 2002
This collection of 15 curriculum projects is the result of a summer seminar in China for teachers and scholars. Projects in the collection are: (1) "Perspectives on Modern Political/Social Issues in China" (Sandy Conlon); (2) "Ancient History X Projects/China" (Michael Corey); (3) "Education and Development: China, a Case…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Asian History, Asian Studies, Chinese Culture