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Purpose
– The aim of this paper is to present a concept where social learning is used in education. Thematically, the concept is suitable for complex, interdisciplinary, societal challenges with a high degree of uncertainty regarding future changes. It is exemplified here by the need to link disaster risk reduction (DRR) with climate change adaptation (CCA) and flood risk management (FRM). The concept answers to the variety of adopted solutions and build-up of knowledge that exist, as a consequence of far-reaching local liabilities and initiatives. The concept advocates building of platforms and procedures where managers, stakeholders, researchers, policy makers, and regular students can meet, interact and learn from local examples.


Design/methodology/approach
– The concept IntECR (integrated education, research and collaboration) has been tested in two courses during 2009 and 2010 around the Swedish lakes Vänern and Mälaren. Seminars and field visits were arranged in ten different cities. Participants replied anonymously to a course evaluation and were questioned in groups about their perceived benefit from the concept.


Findings
– Informal networking, holistic perspective, shared problem identification and the positive possibility to study several examples of local management in arrangements with high degree of structural openness, were mentioned by the participants as positive outcome of the concept.


Originality/value
– The use of this educational concept aims to increase the adaptive capacity of societal entities through raised capacity of their individual members. The applied example is timely, relevant and a contribution to DRR and CCA.

For the past four years the people of the Yukon Territory in the Northwest of Canada have been involved in a number of activities designed to bring about a reform of their education system. The culmination of these activities is to be a new education law planned for enactment in 1990. This article provides an analysis of the Yukon's proposed new Education Act, refers to some of the recent education reform movements elsewhere, and then outlines some of the major elements of the Yukon's draft law including student and parental rights and responsibilities, a three-tiered system of local school governance, the roles of teachers and principals, a "made in the Yukon" curriculum, a comprehensive appeals procedure, and arrangements for the increased participation of the Yukon's First Nation peoples. The article concludes with critical analysis and commentary on the appropriateness of the proposed law for schooling in today's society. RÉSUMÉ Depuis quatre ans, la population du Yukon (nord-ouest du Canada) participe à un processus de réforme du système d'éducation qui a pour but l'adoption d'une nouvelle loi sur l'éducation dont l'entrée en viguer est prévue pour 1990. Le présent article analyse ce projet de loi, examine d'autres mouvements réformistes récents et décrit certains des principaux éléments du projet de loi yukonais, notamment: les droits et responsabilités des parents et des étudiants, le système de gestion scolaire à trois paliers proposé, le rôle des enseignants et principaux d'école, le programme scolaire "conçu au Yukon", la procédure globale d'appel et les dispositions visant à accroître la participation des Premières nations. L'article se termine sur une analyse critique assortie d'observations où l'auteur examine la pertinence du projet de loi compte tenu des besoins de la société contemporaine en matière d'éducation.

The Center for the Education of Women at the University of Michigan conducted a national survey of U.S. institutions of higher education in 2002, examining the prevalence of family-friendly policies offered to higher education faculty and inquiring about the administration of those policies. In 2007, they replicated and enhanced the questionnaire and again surveyed a representative sample of institutions across the country. The results enable them to assess changes and progress in the provision of such policies and to report on the status of family-friendly policies in higher education in 2007. ; University of Michigan, Center for the Education of Women

AbstractThis chapter describes the importance of evaluator education and some of the different ways in which evaluators can learn about the field.It discusses a historic perspective on evaluator education alongside its recent developments, and describes areas where further discussion is needed, including critical adult education, universal design for learning, and explicitly linking evaluator education with contemporary and anticipated future needs. It concludes by asking "what should evaluator education look like in the future?"

In this report the question of education in fair play in football clubs is critically discussed. The results of a representative study of the attitudes of juvenile football players, football coaches and 12-14 year-old pupils towards fair play and violence verify that violence and unfairness are the logical consequences of the comprehension of a sport that is solely or primarily oriented towards success. The longer 12-14 year old juveniles play soccer in a soccer club, the more they are willing to see intentional fouls as fair; thus the more they internalize the moral of "fair foul". On the basis of these results, the efforts to promote fair play and the chances of an education in fair play are discussed critically.

MPA education engineerin is the process of utilizing technological teaching and systematic evaluation, and is characterized by applied teaching subjects ad practical classroom education. The essential ways to actualized MPA education engineering: role simulation, practical teaching, case study, on-the-job training, etc.

Education stands as a potent predictor of political attitudes; however, the underlying mechanisms and moderators of this relationship are not well-understood. We hypothesize that the liberalizing effect of education is moderated by discipline, and that the scientific ethos that serves to guide empirical inquiries facilitates the development of more liberal political attitudes via concerns about fairness and equality. As predicted, being educated in a science-related discipline, as opposed to a non-science discipline, was associated with greater political liberalism; importantly, this effect could not be accounted for by self-selection (Study 1). Furthermore, concerns about fairness and equality, as captured by an individual's social dominance orientation, mediated the relationship between studying science and political liberalism (Study 2). Study 3 replicated these findings and attest to their generalizability. Study 4 directly assessed the underlying mechanism, endorsement of the scientific ethos, and replicated the mediational model; those who endorsed the scientific ethos more strongly reported more liberal political attitudes, and this was mediated by their lower social dominance orientation. ; peerReviewed ; publishedVersion

In this paper, an attempt has been made to show that while at the initial stages of demographic transition it is the education of females that exerts significant negative effect on fertility, as the transition progresses, this effect tends to weaken, and the dominant pattern changes to one wherein it is the fertility level that exerts significant negative influence on educational attainment of children, especially of girls. By using crosstabular data from census and surveys, it is shown that much of the recent reduction in fertility and the rise in contraceptive levels in India has come, not from more women becoming literate over time, but from the changes in the reproductive behaviour of illiterate women themselves. (DSE/DÜI)

Distance education has long been an integral component of the education system of the Russian Federation and the former Soviet Union. A great many students and teachers in the country have been benefiting from the merits of distance education. The statistics announced by the state officials indicate strong evidence for the presence of mainstream remote learning. However, there is little information with regard to distance education of the country in the western literature. This necessitates an overview of the system and the history of the integration. This article, thus, sheds light on the general information regarding the history and demography of the general and higher education system across the country. It further takes a slight detour to the history of distance education and contemporary practices.

This chapter will address the multi-disciplinary and disparate professional origins of family mediation through identifying mediation's distinctive purpose within dispute resolution theory. This would start with looking at the spectrum of third party processes (which are primarily adjudicative in nature), understanding their boundaries and limitations. Emphasis would be on mediation being third party enabling/assistance of negotiations not third party decision making. This would then lead to exploration of the ethics of mediation because of this distinct purpose. This chapter will look at how and why third parties transform disputes and whether or how this is done in mediation. With reference to these boundaries and potentially professionally blinkered views of a dispute, academic study should look at the ethics of mediation within family disputes. Any academic teaching would also include an understanding of negotiation skills and strategies for conflict management (including the impact of power imbalances common to family disputants on negotiation capacity), psychology of conflict (both generally and within the specific context of family breakdown). All this would be with reference to mediation boundaries and ethics. Finally, academic teaching of family mediation should also include socio-economic and political analysis of the emergence of family mediation and the challenges that such issues place on the ethical practice of family mediation.

Another report of importance to health officers. It tells plainly where deficiencies lie in existing systems of meat inspection. With inspection there is much condemnation of meat so that the potential risk of consuming diseased meat is vastly greater in absence of inspection. Health officers realize the dangers and will welcome proper legislation.