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Müller, Ruth; Kaltenbrunner, Wolfgang – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2019
Interdisciplinarity is often framed as crucial for addressing the complex problems of contemporary society and for achieving new levels of innovation. But while science policy and institutions have provided a variety of incentives for stimulating interdisciplinary work throughout Europe, there is also growing evidence that some aspects of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Career Development, Researchers
Pedersen, Helena – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2011
This article seeks to contribute to the idea of "posthumanist education" by unfolding an educational situation where an assemblage of two humans and 33 former battery hens is gathered to carry out a so-called cognitive bias experiment for two days. A Deleuzian repertoire is set in motion to configure the dynamics of hens intervening in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Educational Principles, Critical Theory
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Sloman, Katherine; Thompson, Richard – International Journal of Science Education, 2010
Undergraduate students pursuing a three-year marine biology degree programme (n = 86) experienced a large-group drama aimed at allowing them to explore how scientific research is funded and the associated links between science and society. In the drama, Year 1 students played the "general public" who decided which environmental research…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Scientific Research, Environmental Research, Science and Society
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Wright, Hazel A.; Ironside, Joseph E.; Gwynn-Jones, Dylan – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2009
Purpose: Owing to the specialist nature of biological experimentation, scientific research staff have been largely neglected from the pro-environmental initiatives which have inundated other areas of higher education. This dearth of studies is surprising given that scientific research is recognised as a substantial contributor to the environmental…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Environmental Research, Laboratories, Work Environment
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Seltzer, Richard J. – Chemical and Engineering News, 1976
Discusses a $500 million Arab fund to promote regional research on topics such as arid land development, water resource development, and solar energy. (MLH)
Descriptors: Arabs, Environmental Research, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Montoya, Ricardo Anzaldua, Ed.; And Others – 1984
The fourth annual research inventory describes 728 Mexican-related research projects being conducted in 1984 or to begin in 1985 in 14 countries. Data come from questionnaires sent during 1984 to more than 1,800 individual researchers and 650 institutions around the world. Each project description provides names and addresses of principal and…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Anthropology, Biological Sciences, Educational Research
A M Productions Inc., Vancouver (British Columbia). – 1998
This 57-minute videotape covers the "Florida Educators Using Information Technology" session of the "Eco-Informa '96" conference. Two speakers presented examples of environmental educators using information technology. The first speaker, Brenda Maxwell, is the Director and Developer of the Florida Science Institute based at…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Critical Thinking, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education