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Download full textOldakowski, Ray, Ed.; Molina, Laurie, Ed.; Purdum, Betsy, Ed. – 1997
This guide presents examples of Florida's unique natural environments, its attempts to preserve natural areas, and to perform the careful balancing act required to encourage development for its ever growing transient and permanent resident populations without destroying valuable natural resources. The volume offers a look at some of the less…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Geography, Geography Instruction, Science and Society
Poisson, Muriel, Ed. – 2001
This report is divided into five parts. Part One entitled "Science Education for Contemporary Society: Problems, Issues and Dilemmas," explores the contemporary relationship between science and society and studies how current practices in science teaching are based on a number of myths or assumptions that are not always justified. It…
Descriptors: Biodiversity, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Sproull, Robert L.; Hall, Harold H. – 1987
Multidisciplinary programs have a venerable history, but most of the early history was either at big university equipment projects or at first-rate industrial laboratories. There has always been a small amount of interdisciplinarity, such as the physicist's or chemist's cadging crystal specimens from the geologist. But only in the post World War…
Descriptors: College Science, Curriculum Design, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Peer reviewedAdams, C.; And Others – Science, Technology, & Human Values, 1988
Presents about 200 abstracts of papers presented at the joint conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Amsterdam, 16-19 November 1988. (YP)
Descriptors: Attitudes, College Science, Conferences, Ethics
National Governors' Association, Washington, DC. – 1987
Since the beginning of the decade, a significant number of states have initiated science and technology programs to encourage economic growth. Although these programs share some structural similarity, many of the specific details are unique. Among the unique aspects of these state programs are their objectives, organizational elements,…
Descriptors: College Science, Cooperative Programs, Government School Relationship, Higher Education
Commonwealth Secretariat, London (England). – 1985
The workshop on the popularization of science was the first of what the organizing institutions hoped would be a series of workshops on this important theme. It was held to complement the efforts of various institutions and organizations in the whole area of technological acculturation so that the benefits of science may be understood by and…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries
Brinckerhoff, Richard F., Ed.; Yager, Robert E., Ed. – 1985
This conference was convened to identify the most important problems and opportunities facing science teaching in secondary schools and to suggest the most practical means of addressing them. The report highlights issues involving science and technology education which were addressed at the conference. Information is presented in three major…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Educational Philosophy, Science and Society
Otto, Paul B., Ed. – 1995
The purpose of this symposium was to provide a forum for the interchange of state of the art mathematics and science education teaching in two Southeast South Dakota National Science Foundation Statewide Systemic Initiative projects. Presentations include: (1) "To Get This Car Moving, We Will Have to Put It in Gear" (Delmar Janke); (2)…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Folk Culture
Clark, John W., Ed.; And Others – Physics in Medicine & Biology, 1988
This document contains the proceedings of a joint meeting of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering and the International Organization for Medical Physics. Participants from over 50 countries were in attendance. The theme of the program, "Challenges for the Year 2000," was a reminder of the challenges which…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Biomechanics, Biomedical Equipment, Biomedicine
Cheek, Dennis W., Ed.; Cheek, Kim A., Ed. – 1997
The papers in this volume represent a sampling of the perspectives shared at the 1996 National Technological Literacy Conference. The papers are divided into two sections. Section 1, "STS [science, technology, and society]: Philosophical and Sociological Perspectives," includes: (1) "Relevant Science: STS-Oriented Science Courses…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Valanides, Nicos, Ed. – 2001
This document contains two volumes of papers presented at the first annual meeting of the International Organization of Science and Technology Education Symposium. Each volume of papers is divided into two sections. Section 1 of the first volume focuses on relevant teaching, incorporating curriculum, teaching approaches, and assessment aspects.…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
Sanders, Mark, Ed. – 1986
This document contains the following 16 papers presented at a conference on teaching technical education and technical literacy: "British School Technology and the Industry Education Unit" (Eric Bates); "The Development of Technological Education through Bedfordshire Local Education Authority to British School Technology" (Ron…
Descriptors: Industrialization, Innovation, Mathematics, Postsecondary Education
Ministry of Education, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). – 1988
This workshop was organized as a contribution to Ethiopia's human resettlement activities necessitated by the recurrent drought. The objectives of the workshop were to: (1) appraise the relevance of basic rural technologies and identify modalities of their application; (2) develop materials in the fields of biotechnology and basic technology; (3)…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Agronomy, Community Development, Developing Nations
Iozzi, Louis A., Ed.; Shepard, Clint L., Ed. – 1989
The conference described in this document featured keynote addresses, two workshops, symposia, and contributed presentations. This document contains the extended abstracts of the conference presentations, and symposia. Topics of the papers and symposia of this conference cover the areas of: (1) the relationship between environmental education and…
Descriptors: Communications, Curriculum Development, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
Cheek, Dennis, W., Ed.; Waks, Leonard J., Ed. – 1989
The 52 papers presented reflect the diverse interests of the members of the National Association for Science, Technology and Society (NASTS). The first two papers deal with theoretical issues related to technological literacy (TL). Two papers discuss technology education at the elementary school level. Twelve papers cover various aspects of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, General Education, Liberal Arts
