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Peer reviewedHicks, David; Fisher, Simon – International Review of Education, 1982
Describes "World Studies 8-13," a curriculum project of the United Kingdom concerned with four themes relating to the global village, spaceship earth, or world society. Themes include getting on with others, learning about other peoples, understanding the news, and the world tomorrow. (RH)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Download full textBrown, Jeffrey L., Comp.; Gotsch, Paula, Comp. – 1983
Arranged in four parts, this manual describes the experience of the New Jersey Consortium for Global Education in organizing a statewide project to increase emphasis on international education in the classroom. Part 1 charts the history of the consortium and includes background of global education in New Jersey, components of the grant proposal to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Global Approach, Guidelines, Interdisciplinary Approach
Chicago Univ., IL. Chapin Hall Center for Children. – 2001
This guide chronicles the ongoing work and writings of the Chapin Hall Center for children at the University of Chicago, a policy research center dedicated to bringing sound information, rigorous analyses, innovative ideas, and an independent, multidisciplinary perspective to bear on policies and programs affecting children. The guide, organized…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Welfare, Children, Community Development
Heller, Rafael – Peer Review, 1999
If colleges and universities wish to internationalize the curriculum, they must provide faculty with foreign study opportunities and assist them with the design of interdisciplinary collaborations. Two institutions and one consortium that have created promising and unique approaches to this kind of faculty development are profiled. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, Consortia, Curriculum Development
Pickert, Sarah; Turlington, Barbara – 1992
This handbook offers practical guidance from implemented programs for making the undergraduate curriculum more international in outlook and content. The handbook is divided into five chapters. In the first chapter, presidents of four colleges and universities describe how they encourage curricular change to internationalize their institutions. The…
Descriptors: Colleges, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Environment
Prakasha, Veda – 1983
This digest explores the possibilities of cost reduction in extending the coverage and upgrading the quality of preschool education especially in developing countries. The digest also seeks to highlight the importance of community participation in developing and managing preschool institutions and programs. Chapters cover the following topics: the…
Descriptors: Administration, Community Involvement, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). Div. of Marine Sciences. – 1981
As a result of the increasing human impacts upon global marine and aquatic resources, there is an increasing need to produce fishery science experts who can contribute to management, planning, and research. The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations and Unesco cosponsored a workshop to examine the present status and problems in…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Science, Curriculum Development, Environmental Education
