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Globalization and Education - Ed.: The Pontifical Academy of Sciences and of Social Sciences

English · Hardback

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Description

This book presents the results of a joint meeting organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences where renowned international scholars discussed the importance of education in an increasingly globalized world. The papers cover a wide range of topics, including immigration, education in developing countries, knowledge transfer, social, economic, cultural, and political conditions in global education, technology, communication, access to information and knowledge, as well as, bio-anthropological issues.

List of contents

New Approaches to Education in the Globalized World
Howard E. Gardner; Nicholas Negroponte; M. Govind Kumar Menon
The Role of Communication and Information Technologies
Michel Serres; Mortimer Zuckerman; Rajendra S. Pawar / Manas Chakrabarti / Sugata Mitra
The Effects of Globalization on Education
David E. Bloom; Mohamed H.A. Hassan
Education of Immigrants and their Children
Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco / Carola Suárez-Orozco; Louis-André Vallet
Education and Cultural Diversity
Wei Yu; Jean-Claude Berthélemy; Mina M. Ramirez; Juan J. Llach
Which Anthropological Bases for Education and Research?
Jean-Didier Vincent; Jürgen Mittelstrass
Statement on Globalization and Education

About the author

Pierre Léna is emeritus professor of physics and astrophysics at the university of Paris Diderot-Paris 7 and researcher at the Observatoire de Paris.François Mignard is a director of research of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientific (CNRS) at the Observatoire de la Côte d Azur. He specialises in astrometry and has played a major role in the future European space mission GAIA.

Product details

Assisted by	Pierre Lena (Editor), Pierre 10000313442 Lena (Editor), Pierre Léna (Editor), Edmon Malinvaud (Editor), Edmond Malinvaud (Editor), Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo (Editor), Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo (Editor), Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo (Editor)
Publisher	De Gruyter

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	01.01.2007

EAN	9783110191134
ISBN	978-3-11-019113-4
No. of pages	285
Dimensions	170 mm x 25 mm x 240 mm
Weight	642 g
Illustrations	4 b/w tbl., 4 plates
Subjects	Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous

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