Socio-environmental problems are some of the major concerns today’s society, and education is an essential area to raise awareness mould future citizens who will be committed sustainability. The purpose this paper ascertain how primary secondary teachers in social sciences perceive socio-environmental that affect for their subsequent inclusion curriculum. To end, a study was carried out by mean...

In order to develop a curriculum especially for educable mentally retarded students at the high school level, this federally funded 1-year research project aimed to establish unique parameters involved in vocational adjustment for these students and to develop a tentative curriculum with this information. A literature review was conducted, and a research team interviewed supervisors, vocational...

Thirteen primary and pre-primary schools in Extremadura (Spain) were participants in an educational research project, "Ecocentros", based on school environmental audits (ecoaudits). To understand the contribution these experiences can make to achieving the objectives of environmental education, it is essential to know what is actually incorporated into the curriculum and how. Progress was made ...

BACKGROUND Social pediatrics teaches pediatric residents how to understand disease within their patients' social, environmental and political contexts. It's an essential component of pediatric residency training; however there is very little literature that addresses how such a broad-ranging topic can be taught effectively. The aim of this study was to determine and characterize social pediatri...

The time lag between needs assessment and implementation of faculty development curricula assumes a certain stability of participants' individual and contextual needs which may not reflect the often complex and shifting priorities in health professional schools. In addition to the variability of issues they face, participants are typically better able to recognize and articulate their needs onc...

Being able to work with mathematical models of hydrological and environmental systems becomes increasingly important for students of civil and environmental engineering departments. Courses or course sections teaching the specific skills needed are slowly making their way into the curriculum. This paper discusses the requirements for tools to teach these topics. Two example tools for model iden...

The most perplexing international problem concerning the fate of our planet is the issue of global warming. There are a number of complex factors governing the resolution of this extremely important environmental challenge. The decrease in world-wide fossil fuel reserves coupled with an increase in carbon dioxide emissions from the combustion of hydrocarbons makes it imperative that alternative...