NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Barak, Belma; Avci, Görkem – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2022
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a teaching and learning approach that is based on the principles that underpin sustainability and applies to all levels of education. However, there is a scarcity of research on the integration of curricula with ESD. In this study, secondary school curricula in Germany (Bavaria) (geography, nature and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Curriculum, Sustainable Development, Cultural Differences
Attashani, Abdulrazik; Pesenti, Roberto A. – 1974
Reported is a study related to a Project on an Information Memory Model in which the performance of children living in two different cultures (Libyan and American) was compared on two problem solving tasks to investigate cultural differences in memory information processing. One task was the chemical bodies experiment studied by Piaget and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Differences, Educational Research
Bracey, Gerald W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1998
A videotape series produced by the Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Collection demonstrates college and secondary students' misconceptions about everyday phenomena and advocates teaching for understanding. Third International Science and Mathematic Study data show American and German teachers' interest in procedures and algorithms, compared with…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cultural Differences, Discovery Learning, Educational Principles
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Models, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education
Iozzi, Louis A.; And Others – 1980
The purpose of this module is to introduce students (grades 7-8) to the concept of change as reflected in changes of lifestyle. The module is comprised of three major sections. Section 1 examines family roles in earlier Amerindian society (low technology) and society today (high technology). Section 2 examines the role and purpose of education,…
Descriptors: American Indians, Change, Comparative Analysis, Critical Thinking
Iozzi, Louis A. – 1982
"Technology and Changing Lifestyles" is one of the "Preparing for Tomorrow's World" (PTW) program modules. PTW is an interdisciplinary, future-oriented program incorporating information from the sciences and social sciences and addressing societal concerns which interface science/technology/society. The program promotes…
Descriptors: American Indians, Change, Comparative Analysis, Critical Thinking