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Education to meet new challenges in a networked society / Leo Jansen, Paul Weaver and Rietje van Dam-Mieras.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jansen, Leo, 1956-
- Series:
- Education in a competitive and globalizing world series.
- Novinka (Series)
- Education in a competitive and globalizing world series
- Novinka
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Economic aspects.
- Education.
- Education--Social aspects.
- Education and globalization.
- Sustainable development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (109 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The rapidly-evolving world of the 21st century faces tremendous challenges of economic, ecological, social, cultural and global dimensions to be handled by citizens with an increasing self-consciousness. Naming just some of the challenges provides immediate insight into their magnitude, nature and diversity: reduce and prevent international instability, reduce over exploitation of earth resources, respond to the greenhouse threat, meet the needs of a rapidly growing global population, create a fairer distribution of wealth, guide rural and urban development. These are just some of the interrelated and interacting challenges of developing sustainably in a highly dynamic and interconnected world. They are characterised by the need for long-term approaches, the involvement of many stakeholders with conflicting interests and the fact that their approach demands parallel routes on different scales.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A new and challenging context
- New needs in science, education, and learning
- Transitions and supporting competences
- Modes of capacity and competence building
- Pioneering examples: science for sustainable development
- Pioneering examples: higher education for sustainable development.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [77]-83) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61668-805-X
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