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Twenty-First Century Technology and the Global Environment: Developing a Cause/Effect Relationship Perspective Among Proactive Action Students.
Peters, Richard O. – 1982
Technology, defined as power to build or to destroy, affects both the natural and social environments. Technological societies are characterized by five elements: green revolution, industry, medicine, biology, and space technology. To demonstrate that individuals and groups perceive the effects of these aspects differently, a summary of nine pro…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Global Approach
Living in Our Global Society--New Directions for Social Studies Education in the 21st Century.
Peters, Richard O. – 1991
One of the main goals of social studies education should be to help students to understand that as U.S. citizens they are also citizens of a global community. This compilation of discussion and lesson plans is designed to foster debate among social studies educators and to help classroom teachers educate globally aware citizens. The included…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society)
Progress Toward a Global Perspective of Environmental Quality: Strategies to Affect Student Awareness of the Environment.
Peters, Richard O. – 1978
National and International Conferences on Environmental Education have been held over the last three years. These provide a global perspective that is translated into goals and objectives for environmental education programs in the United States. Emphasis is on the need to educate people to the fact that all mankind shares the earth and that with…
Descriptors: Conferences, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education
COPEing With Environmental Education Program Development and Infusion into the Global Studies Curricula of Rural Schools.
Peters, Richard O. – 1984
An environmental education-oriented global studies program to promote attitudes of environmental stewardship can be implemented in K-12 rural school systems, as an integrated part of social studies instruction, without overburdening the curriculum, by using the Curriculum Organization and Program Evaluation (COPE) model. The model provides…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Conservation (Environment), Course Content, Course Objectives
Instructional Program Development in a Rural Experimental School System.
Peters, Richard O. – 1978
Purpose of the Experimental Schools Project in New Hampshire School Supervisory Union 58 was to effect change within an existing school system, create new instructional programs to affect student awareness and knowledge, relate school to community and the instructional process to total life-space environment, and document variables affecting…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Community Involvement, Decision Making
A Focus on Lifespace Awareness for Effective 21st Century Living in the Global Community.
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Peters, Richard O. – 1991
This document suggests that efforts must be made, within the context of social studies curricula, to help children and youth perceive and interact with distant phenomena, either real or simulated interaction, so that they begin to understand the complexity and importance of the total global lifespace environment upon them both singularly and…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society), Global Approach