Download or read book Towards Globo Sapiens written by Patricia Kelly and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global and local studies show that the present growth-based approach to development is unsustainable. If we are serious about surviving the 21st century we will need graduates who are not simply 'globally portable' or even 'globally competent', but also wise global citizens, Globo sapiens. This book contributes to what educators need to know, do and be in order to support transformative learning.
Download or read book Globo Sapiens written by Leon Berger and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My name is Isaac Enriquez, but I can explain that." So begins this debut novel by Leon Berger, and immediately we're involved with the most "globalized" man on earth. He's of mixed parentage, mixed religion, and mixed everything else. He's lived on several continents, and now, to top it all off, he has a career that involves him in a frenetic life of jet-lag and e-mail. As we meet Isaac, his lifelong identity crisis is just reaching its climax, and suddenly an ordinary business trip becomes a search for answers . . . a search that takes him from Australia, to Asia, to Europe, and finally to North America. He connects with a diverse and oddball network of fellow "Globo Sapiens" before his entire quest narrows down to one question: should he go back to the calm stability of a woman in China, or take up with the passionate American who lives half a world away? Isaac's observations are both witty and poignant, highly philosophical yet also touchingly human. But the major theme of Globo Sapiens goes much deeper, to nothing less than the evolution of the human species and the globalized fate of mankind itself. As his British friends says: "By the third or fourth millennium, we'll all be like you, Isaac . . . scary thought that, don't you think?"
Download or read book Environmental Values in a Globalizing World written by Ian Lowe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together contributions from prominent philosophers, political scientists and other scholars on the challenges that globalization poses to traditional environmental values.
Download or read book A Voice of Reason written by Ian Lowe and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can civilization survive the 21st century? Professor Ian Lowe, author, pre-eminent scientist and president of the Australian Conservation Foundation, thinks we have a chance--but we have to act now, and not just on global warming. Here, collected for the first time, are Lowe's views on topics that concern all Australians--the environment, culture, science, politics, education, technology and the economy, along with new pieces on Australia's outlook this century. Written in Lowe's accessible and engaging style, this collection of essays and opinion pieces is a resource for change based on common sense rather than fear-mongering. Informative, challenging and incisive, "A Voice of Reason: Reflections on Australia" will inspire you to make a difference.
Download or read book Alternative Educational Futures written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We desperately need the dynamic revolution in education that this book offers us, reflecting the new ways of thinking and being on this planet that will permit us to live in peace as a global family even through massive climate changes. Read it and put these ideas into practice as quickly as possible in any ways you can!” —Elisabet Sahtouris, Evolutionary biologist and futurist, author of EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution
Download or read book Handbook of Futures Studies written by Roberto Poli and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-05 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful Handbook emphasizes the unique contribution that Futures Studies offers when understanding and managing current situations. Contributing authors argue that by learning to examine the future in the present, individuals and organizations can expand their abilities to analyze, assess and ultimately make better decisions. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
Download or read book Goodbye to All That written by Robert Manne and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the global financial crisis, its social implications and its potential outcomes for Australia. It examines neo-liberalism and economic rationalism, and discusses their consequences. After the GFC, how might we rethink the challenge of climate change, of care, of quality of life more generally? What is the proper role of the market? What parts of the social fabric need to be mended to create a more sustainable, fairer Australia? Contributors: Kevin Rudd, Robert Manne, Jean Curthoys, John Quiggin, Michael Pusey, Anne Manne, David McKnight, Ian Lowe, Guy Pearse.
Download or read book Student Mobilities and International Education in Asia written by Ravinder K. Sidhu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-21 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates why students choose to study in key Asian cities, and how this trend relates to the strategic intent of states and universities to build ‘knowledge economies’ and ‘world-class’ profiles. Drawing on substantial theoretical and empirical research, the authors examine the emotional geographies of East Asian international education, and offer new analytical insights into the relations between emotions, nation and subjectivity. The book challenges Eurocentric views of Asia as a space of volatile nationalist rivalries. By offering richly textured portraits of mobile students, it questions contemporary memes about the utility-maximising Asian learner. This is a thought-provoking text that will appeal to university researchers, academics and students interested in the changing architectures of international education.
Download or read book Educating in Dialog written by Sebastian Feller and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educating in Dialog: Constructing meaning and building knowledge with dialogic technology contains a collection of new articles on the relationship of learning, dialog and technology. The articles combine different views of dialogic learning stemming from a multiplicity of discipline backgrounds and research interests including educational design, educational science, epistemology, cognitive linguistics, cultural studies, and mobile learning, to name a few. The authors discuss and explore a variety of topics that range from knowledge building over learning communities to dialogic technologies for knowledge co‐construction. Discussing technology and learning against this broad background is indispensable, as the gap between what learners actually need for successful learning and what current technology offers becomes increasingly wide. This book provides thought-provoking views of recent developments in the area of technology supported learning for everyone who is interested in educational technologies, collaborative learning, and dialog.
Download or read book Developing Effective Part time Teachers in Higher Education written by Fran Beaton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, drawing on the voices of part-time teachers and the expertise of those who support them, considers whole-institution strategies to promote individual and collective professional development. Amanda Gilbert from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Download or read book Belonging and Identity in STEM Higher Education written by Camille Kandiko Howson and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Belonging and Identity in STEM Higher Education, leading scholars, teachers, practitioners and students explore belonging and identity in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields, and how this is impacted by disciplinary changes and the post-pandemic higher education context. In STEM fields, positivist approaches and a focus on numerical data can lead to assumptions that they are unemotional, impersonal disciplines. The need for mathematical competency, logical thinking and disciplinary contexts can be barriers to engagement, belonging and success in STEM. STEM ways of thinking, such as those underpinning abstract and complex mathematics, can form the basis for new ways of conceptualising belonging for both staff and students, going beyond socio-demographic and cultural differences. In this book, chapters and case study contributions analyse what is unique about STEM educational environments for staff and students in the UK, Ireland, Europe, Scandinavia and Asia. The authors examine the role of STEM pedagogies in facilitating belonging, variable impacts across student characteristics and the experiences STEM students face in their higher education experiences. It provides a valuable resource for those working in equity diversity and inclusion (EDI), STEM educational researchers and practitioners, as well as offering insights for academics and teachers in STEM higher education.
Download or read book Multilateralism Under Challenge Power International Order And Structural Change written by Edward Newman and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wild Law In Practice written by Michelle Maloney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Law - In Practice aims to facilitate the transition of Earth Jurisprudence from theory into practice. Earth Jurisprudence is an emerging philosophy of law, coined by cultural historian and geologian Thomas Berry. It seeks to analyse the contribution of law in constructing, maintaining and perpetuating anthropocentrism and addresses the ways in which this orientation can be undermined and ultimately eliminated. In place of anthropocentrism, Earth Jurisprudence advocates an interpretation of law based on the ecocentric concept of an Earth community that includes both human and nonhuman entities. Addressing topics that include a critique of the effectiveness of environmental law in protecting the environment, developments in domestic/constitutional law recognising the rights of nature, and the regulation of sustainability, Wild Law - In Practice is the first book to focus specifically on the practical legal implications of Earth Jurisprudence.
Download or read book The International Handbook on Environmental Technology Management written by Dora Marinova and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an excellent textbook, suitable as a core text for environmental engineers and environmental scientists but equally it should, in my opinion, be compulsory reading for all researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers regardless of their discipline because it has relevance for all. In fact, the book is so lively and understandable that everyone and anyone could and should read it. . . Clearly written by a team of recognised environmental authors drawn from around the world, it guides the reader through current thinking on the tools and techniques industry. . . As an academic, it is a delight to find a book to recommend that I know students will enjoy and one which addresses so many different elements of a diversity of university courses, while covering the most important areas of environmental technology and management. I am certainly using it to enhance and update the content of some of my own lectures. Susan Haile, International Journal of Sustainable Engineering This substantial collection draws together a very wide variety of literatures and practices. . . I would expect this book to be a popular purchase by academic libraries, principally as a core text. R&D Management This stunning Handbook is an excellent tool for environmental manager and environmental officer alike. It is brimful of ideas, case studies and methodologies which stimulate continuous improvement thinking and help train staff to implement sustainability and environmental management concepts. Highly recommended. Eagle Bulletin This important Handbook is the first comprehensive account that brings together recent developments in the three related fields of environmental technology, environmental management and technology management. With contributions from more than 55 outstanding authors representing ten countries and five continents, the reader is provided with a vast range of insightful perspectives on the latest industry and policy issues. With the aid of numerous case studies, leading experts reflect on significant changes in the use of technology and management practices witnessed in the last decade. Within this Handbook, the authors discuss, in detail: eco-modernization and technology transformation environmental technology management in business practices measuring environmental technology management case studies in new technologies for the environment environmental technology management and the future. The International Handbook on Environmental Technology Management has a broad audience including researchers, practitioners, policymakers and students in the fields of sustainability and environmental science.
Download or read book Lucky Country written by Ian Lowe and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we reinvent the Lucky Country? Fifty years ago author Donald Horne described Australia as 'a lucky country run by second-rate people', adding that our leaders are mostly unaware of events that surround them. The good fortune continued when our wide brown land proved to contain bountiful resources of saleable minerals, allowing successive generations of second-rate leaders to create an illusion of economic progress by liquidating those assets. But a crisis is approaching, driven by irresponsible encouragement of population growth rates typical of poor developing countries. In this polemic work, Ian Lowe will assess the state of Australia and whether we can retain our status of the Lucky Country.
Download or read book Practical Spirituality and Human Development written by Ananta Kumar Giri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores varieties of spiritual movements and alternative experiments for generation of beauty, dignity and dialogues, in a world where the rise of the religious in politics and the public sphere is often accompanied by violence. It examines how spirituality can contribute to human development, social transformations and planetary realizations, urging us to treat each other, and our planet, with evolutionary care and respect. Trans-disciplinary and trans-paradigmatic to its very core, this text opens new pathways of practical spirituality and humanistic action for both scholarship and discourse and offers an invaluable companion for scholars across religious studies, cultural studies and development studies.
Download or read book Let s Go Brazil 1st Edition written by Let's Go Inc. and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over forty years, Let's Go travel guides have brought budgetsavvy travelers closer to the world. In 2003, a range of innovations made this time-honored resource even more relevant and indispensable to its millions of readers. And the Let's Go 2004 editions are even better.
