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Direct linkSunthonkanokpong, Wisuit; Murphy, Elizabeth – Issues in Educational Research, 2019
The purpose of this study was to survey the awareness, attitudes and actions of Thai, pre-service, industrial-education teachers (N=390) regarding economic, social and environmental sustainability. Survey items were derived from learning objectives provided by UNESCO in relation to 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs). Research questions…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Sustainability, Foreign Countries
Download full textBiao, Idowu; Mogotsi, Kebadire; Maruatona, Tonic; Raditloaneng, Wapula; Tladi, Flora; Chawawa, Morgan; Kheru, Obakeng – World Journal of Education, 2014
The Human Development Index Literacy (HDIL) theory was developed in 2011 to eliminate or minimise the negative impact of issues underlying the failure of previous literacy programmes in promoting socio-economic development. This theory was tested for the first time between July 2013 and February 2014 in two rural communities of Botswana. A…
Descriptors: Literacy, Community Education, Pretests Posttests, Measures (Individuals)
Bano, Shah; Taylor, John – Higher Education Research and Development, 2015
This paper considers the role of universities in the creation of a knowledge-based economy (KBE) in a developing country, Pakistan. Some developing countries have moved quickly to develop a KBE, but progress in Pakistan is much slower. Higher education plays a crucial role as part of the triple helix model for innovation. Based on the perceptions…
Descriptors: Knowledge Economy, Universities, Developing Nations, College Role
Evers, Hans-Dieter; Kaiser, Markus; Muller, Christine – International Social Science Journal, 2009
Knowledge has become a decisive and competitive resource for local and global development, especially since the paradigm "knowledge for development" was initiated and promoted by the World Bank in 1998-1999. Through the use of novel management structures and technologically supported social networks, development organisations and…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations
Peer reviewedLandes, David – Daedalus, 1980
Maintains that the core of the process of industrialization and economic development is intellectual because it consists of acquiring and applying knowledge concerning technique. Explains ways in which new knowledge is learned and applied in formal and nonformal educational settings. Concludes that each society must develop its own means of…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Trends
Brown, Marion Ray – 1968
This study examined current thought concerning the role of mass communication in economic development in developing nations; analyzed existing efforts to diffuse agricultural technology in Chile; assessed the effectiveness of various approaches; and tested the effects (primarily on knowledge levels) of an experimental technical information service…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Agricultural Education, Attitudes, Bulletins
Russell, William Benedict, III, Ed. – International Society for the Social Studies, 2010
The "ISSS Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. (Individual papers contain references.) [For the 2009 proceedings, see ED504973.]
Descriptors: Social Studies, Proverbs, Social Justice, Global Approach
