Face to Face: Global Understanding Through Personal and Virtual Contact
Judith Beth Cohen Professor, School of Education, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA. Jcohen@lesley.edu . Abstract: Based on travel-study experiences in Ghana, Peru, South Africa and other sites, Cohen discusses the positive effects of short-term travel study immersion for students and faculty. Citing research studies that explore global attitudes of participants after such travel, Cohen makes a […]
Environmental Services in Environmental Education
Valdir Lamim-Guedes Laboratório de Estudos Avançados em Jornalismo (Labjor), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brasil. e-mail: dirguedes@yahoo.com.br web: http://naraiz.wordpress.com/ . Absctract: Life quality passes by maintenance of some natural conditions and processes through that the ecosystems and species support human life. It’s relevant to speak about this concept with students, pointing out our dependence […]
Education All Children for Nonkilling
Francisco Gomes de Matos an applied peace linguist, President of the Board, Associação Brasil-América (ABA) fcgm@hotlink.com.br / http://www.estudenaaba.com/ . If you want to communicate peacefully with these two principles you could comply: “Friendly interaction always CREactivate” “Communicate Peace commit to apply” . If you want to communicate peacefully ideas, views, feedbacks freely exchange interpret disagreements respectfully […]
International Day of Democracy: The Contribution of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Network
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/114305025″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Linda Hartling Director, Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies; Cofounder, World Dignity University lhartling@humiliationstudies.org . Evelin Lindner Founding President, Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, affiliated with the University of Oslo, Norway, and Columbia University, NY, USA; Cofounder, World Dignity University e.g.lindner@psykologi.uio.no . Michael Britton Board Member, Human Dignity […]
GreenEarthCitizen (GEC)
Fen Wang President and Founding Director at GreenEarthCitizen greenearthcitizen.fenwang@gmail.com . Honestly speaking, GreenEarthCitizen (GEC) is still a very young organization, less than one year old. Thus, it require us patience, investment with time and commitment, nurturing it to become a potential influential NGO. You see Greenpeace an influential NGO, but never forget that Greenpeace is already 40 years old. […]
Schools in Emergency: Learning From Past Mistakes
By Donna Goodman Founding Director at Earth Child Institute, UNICEF donna@earthchildinstitute.org . Innovating fun and stimulating ways to raise awareness and to generate support for each and every child to fulfill her/his destiny to ‘be the change’ we need for a peaceful sustainable world for all! Check out the amazing international work of Earth Child […]
Readdle’s “PDF Expert”: Combining Technology and Education for a Sustainable Future
Victor Mylonas Business Associate – Readdle Marketing Team victor.m@readdle.com . According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Statistical Yearbook 2013, the increased world paper consumption from 2010 to 2011 is not likely to slow down. This is, primarily, due to the economic and technological boom economies such as China and Singapore are currently […]
Sustainability Frontiers
MISSION AND VALUES Sustainability Frontiers is an international alliance of sustainability and global educators dedicated to laying bare the assumptions, exposing the blind spots and transgressing the current boundaries and orthodoxies of mainstream sustainability education, while envisioning, theorizing, researching, promoting and putting into practice sustainability learning that seeks transformation and healing of the human condition […]
GreenEarthCitizens
Principles of Approaching Issues We will ensure that our advocacy is consistent with our mission, rooted in our work and promotes defined public interests. We will have clear processes for adopting public policy positions, explicit ethical policies and ways of identifying and managing potential conflicts of interest among different stakeholders. 1 Peaceful […]
Global Conference: Building a Global Citizens Movement
In order to encourage connectivity and collaboration between actors and citizens working for social justice, DEEEP will organize a yearly conference in collaboration with CIVICUS – World Alliance for Citizens Participation and GCAP – Global Call to Action against Poverty. The overall aim of this conference is to initiate a global coalition for citizen’s empowerment for change, which will […]
