Author : Patricia Kelly
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9087902948
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.
Author : Leon Berger
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"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?"
Author : Ian Lowe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134289219
This volume brings together contributions from prominent philosophers, political scientists and other scholars on the challenges that globalization poses to traditional environmental values.
Author : Ian Lowe
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,52 MB
Release : 2011-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0702244937
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.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 34,61 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9087905130
“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
Author : Roberto Poli
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 27,80 MB
Release : 2024-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1035301601
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.
Author : Robert Manne
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,73 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1458782638
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.
Author : Ravinder K. Sidhu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 32,99 MB
Release : 2019-09-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030278565
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.
Author : Sebastian Feller
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 2014-11-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027269343
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.
Author : Fran Beaton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 19,70 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415517087
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.
