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Education for Sustainability--Looking Backward and Looking Forward--IUCN CEC Perspective on the United Nations Decade of ESD
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Wheeler, Keith A.; Hesselink, Frits; Goldstein, Wendy – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2015
A network of volunteers, the International Union for Conservation of Nature Commission on Education and Communication (CEC), present some reflections on their contributions towards the field of education for sustainability from 1992 to the present. Many CEC members have been thought leaders to this multidimensional field, and advocates for a more…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Environmental Education, Educational Practices, Reflection
Just Footprints in the Sand? Questioning Sustainability of an IRA International Project
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Lewis-Spector, Jill; Richardson, Judy S.; Janusheva, Violeta – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
Volunteers from the International Reading Association (IRA) participated in the teacher education component of Macedonia's Secondary Education Activity, an initiative to reform vocational/technical education (VET), funded from 2004 to 2008 by USAID. Volunteers offered professional development to VET teachers using a trainer-of-trainers model,…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Professional Development
Building Effective School - Family - Community Partnerships in a Large Urban School District. Report No. 13.
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Sanders, Mavis G. – 1997
Since 1987 schools in Baltimore (Maryland) have been working with the Fund for Educational Excellence and the education research center at Johns Hopkins University to develop comprehensive programs of school-family-community partnerships. To understand better how these schools are building and improving their partnership programs, administrators,…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Family School Relationship
Service-Learning and Reform in the Philadelphia Public Schools.
Hornbeck, David – Phi Delta Kappan, 2000
Philadelphia schools were the first to engage all 200,000 K-12 students in meaningful service-learning activities aligned with district academic standards and learning goals. This has meant providing professional development for 6,000 teachers, forging partnerships with 2,500 community experts and agencies, and developing an efficient evaluation…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Citizenship Education, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Designing and Implementing School, Family, and Community Collaboration Programs in Quebec, Canada
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Deslandes, Rollande – School Community Journal, 2006
The findings in this article will be presented in relation to developing and implementing processes of school, family, and community partnership programs in two primary and two secondary schools in Quebec from 2001 to 2005. The action research project was based on Epstein's (2001) comprehensive framework of six types of involvement: parenting,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Partnerships in Education, Cooperation, Foreign Countries
Experiential Education and the Schools.
Kraft, Richard J., Ed.; Kielsmeier, James, Ed. – 1985
This anthology of 58 pieces originally published in the "Journal of Experiential Education" focuses on the value of experiential learning and the need to incorporate direct experience in formal education. Chapter 1 summarizes and reviews the findings of "A Nation at Risk" and other major national reports on education. Chapter 2…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Change