书目名称 | Rethinking Work and Learning |
副标题 | Adult and Vocational |
编辑 | Peter Willis,Stephen Mckenzie,Roger Harris |
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概述 | Reveals and foregrounds the social dimensions of sustainable development.Explores how such social sustainability might be fostered through adult and vocational education in formal and community learni |
丛书名称 | Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects |
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描述 | Rethinking a Sustainable Society Alan Mayne The world has already passed the midway point for achieving by 2015 the eight Millennium Development Goals for a “more peaceful, prosperous and just world” that were set by the United Nations in the wake of its inspirational Millennium Dec- 1 laration in 2000. These goals range from combating poverty, hunger, and disease, to empowering women, and ensuring environmental sustainability. However Ban Ki-Moon, the United Nations Secretary-General, conceded in 2007 that progress to date has been mixed. During 2008 the head of the United Nations World Food P- gramme cautioned that because of the surge in world commodity prices the program had insuf?cient money to stave off global malnutrition, and the World Health Or- nization warned of a global crisis in water and sanitation. Depressing news accounts accumulate about opportunities missed to achieve a fairer world order and ecolo- calsustainability:themanipulationofelectionresultsinAfrica,humanrightsabuses in China, 4000 Americans dead and another nation torn apart by a senseless and protracted war in Iraq, and weasel words by the world’s political leadership in the lead-up to negotiations for a |
出版日期 | Book 2009 |
关键词 | Adult Education; Adult Learning; Religion; Strategie; education; family; social development; social sustain |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8964-0 |
isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-8037-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-8964-0Series ISSN 1871-3041 Series E-ISSN 2213-221X |
issn_series | 1871-3041 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 |