“Soil Education Manual - Toolbox for DIY program at your classroom” by International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi Kosaki ◽  
Rattan Lal ◽  
Laura Bertha Reyes Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Soil Science ◽  
International Union ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
Research Education ◽  
The World ◽  
International Decade ◽  
Soil Sciences

<p>Soil education is one of the major topics to be enhanced and promoted in the International Decade of Soils 2015-2024 (IDS) project of the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS). The book entitled above has been just published by the IUSS to provide readers, who are interested in soils, geosciences, environment, ecosystems, art, etc. and may be teaching in schools at elementary through university levels, working at museums, educational or extension organizations and serving for NPOs, NGOs, etc., with basic framework of soil and soil science education and a collection of good practices currently employed, so that the readers could learn and share with whatever suited to their own condition efficiently.<br>The book consists of three parts, i.e. framing soil science education, good practices in soil education and future of soil and soil science education. The first part gives tenets and framework of soil education in pre and primary school, under- and post-graduate students and the general public or citizen. The second includes practical methods for soil and soil science education from all over the world, i.e. 1 from Africa, 3 from Asia, 3 from Europe, 2 from North America, 5 from South America and 2 from Oceania, which have been evaluated useful, efficient and promising in their own environments and situations. The final part is devoted for discussing the challenges and future of soil and soil science education. <br>The IUSS is planning to distribute the above publication to a variety of societies so that the current contents and methods and the systems of soil and soil science education be criticized for further improvement towards promoting and enhancing research, education and public awareness of soils as one of the disciplines of geo- and bio-sciences in the future.</p><p> </p>

Promoting and Protecting Minority Languages in Zimbabwe: Use of the 1992 UN Minorities Declaration

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cowen Dziva ◽  
Brian Dube
Keyword(s):  
Public Awareness ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
Awareness Campaigns ◽  
The World ◽  
20Th Anniversary ◽  
United Nations Declaration

Zimbabwe in 2012 joined the rest of the world to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the unanimously adopted United Nations Declaration for Minorities in 1992, as the main document granting non-dominant groups protection by states in all spheres of life. For most African states, Zimbabwe included, the Declaration came amidst ubiquitous marginalisation and disavowal of minority languages in favour of foreign and dominant tongues. Unsurprisingly, Article 4(3(4) of the Declaration sought to obviate this status quo through calling on states to ensure that minorities learn and use their mother languages for development. Ever since the Declaration, the use of minority languages in public spheres has become a hotly debated subject in democratic societies, with many linguists deciphering minority languages to be one of the missing links to Africa’s development. The aim of this article is, therefore, to encapsulates the good practices by Zimbabwean stakeholders and prospects in implementing minority languages. After scrutinising national policies and efforts to advance minority languages, it can be seen that though discernible it is still a long way for Zimbabwe to close the gap on the ideals of the 1992 Declaration. As such, Zimbabwe is propelled to move beyond mere ratification and take concrete steps towards implementation through translating national documents into minority tongues, revamping the education curriculum, public awareness campaigns on the Declaration, training lexicographers, minority sensitive budgeting and constitutionalism if they are to fulfil their obligations under the Declaration.

International Telesupervision: The Clinical Fellowship Experience

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (11) ◽  
pp. 73-78
Author(s):  
David W. Rule ◽  
Lisa N. Kelchner
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Clinical Supervision ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Access To Services ◽  
East African ◽  
The World ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
National Certification

Telepractice technology allows greater access to speech-language pathology services around the world. These technologies extend beyond evaluation and treatment and are shown to be used effectively in clinical supervision including graduate students and clinical fellows. In fact, a clinical fellow from the United States completed the entire supervised clinical fellowship (CF) year internationally at a rural East African hospital, meeting all requirements for state and national certification by employing telesupervision technology. Thus, telesupervision has the potential to be successfully implemented to address a range of needs including supervisory shortages, health disparities worldwide, and access to services in rural areas where speech-language pathology services are not readily available. The telesupervision experience, potential advantages, implications, and possible limitations are discussed. A brief guide for clinical fellows pursuing telesupervision is also provided.

International School in Informatics “Junior” for IOI Training

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 187-193
Author(s):  
Marina S. TSVETKOVA ◽  
Vladimir M. KIRYUKHIN
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
International School ◽  
International Training ◽  
Internet Resources ◽  
Thirtieth Anniversary ◽  
The World ◽  
Training Event ◽  
School Computer

In 2018 the IOI will celebrate its thirtieth anniversary. Over these three decades, not only the world secondary school Olympiads in informatics community have been formed, which covers more than 80 countries from all continents, but a formation of an united methodological space of the school Informatics started also. This space allows many countries today to develop school computer science education, using the experience of other countries, materials from the IOI conference journal, sites of computer science contests, and other Internet resources. This article describes a model for organizing an international training event for juniors – International School in Informatics “Junior” – ISIJ.

Future Directions in International Science Education

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
International Dimension ◽  
The World ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
Science And Engineering Education

The international dimension of science and engineering education is of paramount importance and merits serious consideration of the coherent skill set that is required to allow scientists and engineers more readily to transport themselves and their work to other locations in the world. 

Movement for Sustainable Development through Green Economics

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rakesh Rangwani
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Economics ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Heads Of State

Despite substantial improvements over the past 23 years in many key areas of sustainable development, the world is not on track to achieve the goals as aspired to in Agenda 21, adopted in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and reiterated in subsequent world conferences, such as the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg in 2002. While there have been some achievements in implementing Agenda 21, including the implementation of the chapters on “Science for Sustainable Development” and on “Promoting Education, Public Awareness and Training”, for which UNESCO was designated as the lead agency, much still remains to be done. This decade had seen the idea of a “green economy” float out of its specialist moorings in environmental economics and into the mainstream of policy discourse. It is found increasingly in the words of heads of state and finance ministers, in the text of G20 communiqués, and discussed in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication. The research paper focused to establish a relationship between sustainable development and green economics. The research paper is descriptive and analytical in nature. The data collected from secondary sources such as report from niti aayog, IMF indicators, RBI reports, newspapers, journals. The research design was adopted to have greater accuracy and in depth analysis of the research study. The statistical tools for the analysis are also being used.

scholarly journals Using Blockchain-Enabled Solutions as SDG Accelerators in the International Development Space

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 4025
Author(s):  
Ahmet Faruk Aysan ◽  
Fouad Bergigui ◽  
Mustafa Disli
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Hype Cycle ◽  
The World ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Case Development

As the world is striving to recover from the shockwaves triggered by the COVID-19 crisis, all hands are needed on deck to transition towards green recovery and make peace with nature as prerequisites of a global sustainable development pathway. In this paper, we examine the blockchain hype, the gaps in the knowledge, and the tools needed to build promising use cases for blockchain technology to accelerate global efforts in this decade of action towards achieving the SDGs. We attempt to break the “hype cycle” portraying blockchain’s superiority by navigating a rational blockchain use case development approach. By prototyping an SDG Acceleration Scorecard to use blockchain-enabled solutions as SDG accelerators, we aim to provide useful insights towards developing an integrated approach that is fit-for-purpose to guide organizations and practitioners in their quest to make informed decisions to design and implement blockchain-backed solutions as SDG accelerators. Acknowledging the limitations in prototyping such tools, we believe these are minimally viable products and should be considered as living tools that can further evolve as the blockchain technology matures, its pace of adoption increases, lessons are learned, and good practices and standards are widely shared and internalized by teams and organizations working on innovation for development.

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