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Full-Text Articles in Education
The Projekti Arkeologjike I Shkodres (Pash): Combining Paleoenvironmental And Archaeological Data From A Balkan Lacustrine Landscape, The University Of Maine Anthropology Department
The Projekti Arkeologjike I Shkodres (Pash): Combining Paleoenvironmental And Archaeological Data From A Balkan Lacustrine Landscape, The University Of Maine Anthropology Department
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
The Projekti Arkeolojike i Shkodres (PASH) conducted five years of interdiciplinary, diachronic field research (2010-2014) in the Northern Albanian region of Shkoder, targeting the plain and hills that ring Shkodra Lake. The project was designed to address changes in landscape, settlement, and land use, beginning in prehistory. Intensive archaeological survey of 16 square kilometers identified 15 sites of all periods, many of them multicomponent, and 175 prehistoric burial mounds. Four mounds and three sites were targeted for test excavations, allowing the beginnings of a regional absolute chronology. A program of geological coring is helping to clarify the varying size of …
The Marketing Of Sacrifice, Enda Mcgovern
The Marketing Of Sacrifice, Enda Mcgovern
Presidential Seminar on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition
Slides from a presentation made by Enda McGovern from the Department of Marketing at Sacred Heart University to the University's Board of Trustees. He outlines plans for a class to marketing students whose core text will be Pope Francis' encyclical on June 18, 2015, which lays out and argument for a new partnership between science and religion to combat human-driven climate change.
Environmental Education In Vietnam: A Case Study At Le Loi Elementary School, Emily Heck Heck
Environmental Education In Vietnam: A Case Study At Le Loi Elementary School, Emily Heck Heck
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
The purpose of the research I conducted for this Independent Study Project was to get an in-depth understanding of how elementary school teachers and students think about the environment, environmental problems, and how to include environmental themes in education in Vietnam. I chose to focus on primary school-aged children, as they are a generation growing up in an era of global warming and daunting threats to the environment brought on by human activity. I conducted my research at Le Loi Elementary School in Hue, Vietnam, where I used a variety of research methods to learn from teachers and students including …
Resolution To Enhance University Of Maine's Leadership In Furtherance Of Greater Energy And Environmental Stability, University Of Maine Faculty Senate
Resolution To Enhance University Of Maine's Leadership In Furtherance Of Greater Energy And Environmental Stability, University Of Maine Faculty Senate
General University of Maine Publications
The University of Maine Faculty Senate calls upon the undergraduate student government, the graduate student government and the Faculty Senate at the University of Maine to each appoint an ad hoc committee to work with each other to develop a common motion that their representative bodies might all mutually and strongly support with the goal of placing the University of Maine in a national leadership position towards expanding investment in renewable energy sources by the campus and our State, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, exploring and developing means to eliminate or reduce the adverse consequences of renewable energy generation, and exploring …
Newspapers In Education: Global Issues And Sustainable Solutions, Facing The Future, Western Washington University
Newspapers In Education: Global Issues And Sustainable Solutions, Facing The Future, Western Washington University
Facing the Future Lessons
This curriculum will spark student interest in global and environmental issues and sustainable solutions through 20 thought-provoking articles that first appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Newspapers in Education series Skills for Everyday Living. This 20-article series of case studies and classroom activities can be used in full or in part to study specific topics. All articles include a student activity and "take action" idea.