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Gürel, Davut; Avci, Görkem – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2022
Educational institutions play a significant role in today's world, where the concepts of democracy and human rights gain more and more importance day by day. Every country aims to provide the qualifications that its citizens believe they should have via educational institutions. While doing this, it can reflect the current ideology of the period…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Studies, Textbooks, Textbook Content
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Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M. – Intercultural Education, 2020
In the modern era migrations are complex, multi-determined and elude vulgar mechanistic models of causality. Migrations unfold in complex ecologies involving broad features of the state -- borders, demography, economy, and society. Furthermore, historical relationships, cultural affinities, political interests, and the environment itself continue…
Descriptors: Immigration, Refugees, Global Approach, Climate
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Barnaby, Frank – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1976
Recent discussions at the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament have focused on the use of artificial changes in the environment as a method of warfare. A far more urgent task is development of a specific ban on already available techniques of environmental damage and a general and complete disarmament. (BT)
Descriptors: Conferences, Disarmament, Environment, Environmental Influences
Nummenmaa, Tapio – 1971
The purpose of the study was to describe Finnish children's conceptions of aspects of the adult world and the development of the structure of children's thinking. Ninety boys and girls between the ages of 5 and 10 were interviewed individually. Each child was asked a minimum of 15 questions in each of the following subject areas: 1) war and peace;…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Cognitive Development, Comparative Education, Educational Research
Falk, Richard A. – 1975
The book suggests models of new world organizations that will be necessary to achieve the elimination of global poverty, injustice, war, and environmental imbalance by the end of the 20th century. The book was developed by the World Order Models Project (WOMP), an international group of researchers and scholars established in 1968 to explore…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Disarmament, Environment, Futures (of Society)
French, Dan; Phillips, Connie – 1983
One of a set of high school curricula on nuclear issues, this 10-day science unit helps students understand the interrelationship between the economy, the arms race, military spending, and the threat of nuclear war. Through activities such as role playing, discussion, brainstorming, and problem solving, students develop their ability to evaluate…
Descriptors: Biology, Budgets, Civil Defense, Conflict Resolution