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UNESCO on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Intangible ...

UNESCO on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Intangible ...

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Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage Michael Dylan Foster, Lisa Gilman. Contents. UNESCO on the Ground / Michael Dylan Foster 1 local studies 1 Voices on the Ground: Kutiyattam, UNESCO, and the Heritage of Humanity ...
Global ocean science report: the current status of ocean ...

Global ocean science report: the current status of ocean ...

UNESCO

IOC-UNESCO extends its thanks to the Instituto Español de Oceanografía for giving Mr Luis Valdés the liberty to continue working on this report. Thanks goes also to the whole IOC Secretariat for its continuous invaluable support throughout  ...
The Japanese Company

The Japanese Company

Rodney Clark

F. M. Adams (1964: 245). 2 For details sec Masaki Hisashi* (1973: 10). 1 Hiroshi Mannari (1974: 16270 and 2603). 2 Japanese National Commission for Unesco ( 1959: 10013,1467). 1 Japanese National Commission for Unesco (1966: 296).
International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

Peter Hunt

... sections www.icdlbooks.org International Children's Digital Library www.scbwi. org Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators www.underdown.org The Purple Crayon: An Editor's Site (Harold Underdown) www.unesco.org UNESCO ...
Towards a Global Community: Educating for Tomorrow's World

Towards a Global Community: Educating for Tomorrow's World

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Colin Power is graduate of the University of Queensland (B.Sc., B.Ed., Ph.D.) where he began his academic career, and he is currently an Adjunct Professor of Education. From 1989 to 2000, he served as UNESCO Deputy Director-General ...
Boletim Paranaense de Geociências

Boletim Paranaense de Geociências

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IGCP 443 - MAGNESITE AND TALC - GEOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CORRELATIONS International Geological Correlation Programme of UNESCO and IUGS led by Martin Radvanec, Slovak Republic; ...
Caere

Caere

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Nancy Thompson de Grummond, Lisa Pieraccini. at Tarquinia, as a uNesCo World Heritage site.25 Certainly, of all the discoveries made at Caere and detailed in this volume, the Banditaccia necropolis is preeminent. But the sum total of ...
إدارة مخاطر الكوارث للتراث العالمي:

إدارة مخاطر الكوارث للتراث العالمي:

UNESCO

Proceedings of a Symposium organized by the US National Park Service, Western Regional Office, San Francisco, in collaboration with the Western Chapter of the AssociationforPreservationTechnology, 27–29 June1997, SanFrancisco.
Haiti:

Haiti:

Paul Clammer

This new edition includes even more information on living in Haiti, more festivals – from local fêtes to big celebrations – and coverage of new tourism developments at the Citadelle, Haiti’s only UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Migration, Diaspora and Information Technology in Global ...

Migration, Diaspora and Information Technology in Global ...

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Nahid Kabir is aconsultant for UNESCO forHuman andSocial Sciences. She is alsoan advisor of Islamopedia which is a webbased resource on contemporary Islamicthinking (managed by the Islamin the West Program,Center for Middle ...
The Handbook of Educational Linguistics

The Handbook of Educational Linguistics

Bernard Spolsky

CAROL. BENSON. There are approximately 300–350 million indigenous people in the world; together they speak 4,000–5,000 languages and reside in more than 70 countries (UNESCO, 2006). Despite these numbers, there is a significant  ...
Teaching with Harry Potter: Essays on Classroom Wizardry ...

Teaching with Harry Potter: Essays on Classroom Wizardry ...

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Kristine Larsen, “Hobbits, Hogwarts, and the Heavens: the Use of Fantasy Literature and Films in Astronomy Education and Outreach,” in Proceedings ofIAU- UNESCO Symposium 260, eds. D. Valls-Gabaud and A. Bokensberg ( Cambridge: ...
National Interests and European Integration: Discourse and ...

National Interests and European Integration: Discourse and ...

K. Milzow

Jutta Weldes' workapplies this frameworkto the productionofthe US's'national interest' duringthe Cubanmissile crisis.Martha Finnemore extends the constructivist framework tothe studyofinternational organisations (UNESCO, the International ...
Environment, Education and Society in the Asia-Pacific: ...

Environment, Education and Society in the Asia-Pacific: ...

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Local Traditions and Global Discourses John Fien, Helen Sykes, David Yencken. States, Westview Press, Boulder, Co. (1989). Finally, we would like to thank Rupert Maclean of UNESCO for his interest in the research, his support of a project ...
The Iraq War and Its Consequences: Thoughts of Nobel Peace ...

The Iraq War and Its Consequences: Thoughts of Nobel Peace ...

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Sir John Daniel A Fellow of the Open University and Assistant Director-General for Education at UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Orgamisation), he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for services to higher ...
PROCEEDINGS 4th International Congress on “Science and ...

PROCEEDINGS 4th International Congress on “Science and ...

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[6] UNESCO (2008) Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, Paris. [7] Tiesdell, Steven; Taner, Oc; and Heath, Tim (1998) Revitalizing ...
Qualitative Research: A Guide to Design and Implementation

Qualitative Research: A Guide to Design and Implementation

Sharan B. Merriam

No doubt this book will change the way we think about and publish qualitative research." —Leona M. English, head of publications and research, UNESCO Institute of Lifelong Learning, Hamburg
Distance Education and Distributed Learning

Distance Education and Distributed Learning

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Sir John Daniel UNESCO In 1857, Josiah Bumbridge hailed the inventor of the blackboard as one of the greatest benefactors of mankind, adding that the blackboard had created a revolution in education comparable to the introduction of ...
World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Volume 2: The ...

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Volume 2: The ...

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Volume 2: The Americas Arthur Holmberg, Carlos Solorzano. NICARAGUA Writer : Judith A. Weiss (Professor, Department of French and Spanish, Mount AllisonUniversity, Sackville) Readers: Jorge Eduardo Arellano (Nicaraguan UNESCO ...
RELIGION, CULTURE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -Volume I:

RELIGION, CULTURE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -Volume I:

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Reproduced from: Mohammed A. Bamyeh,(2007),ISLAMIC CIVILIZATIONS, in world civilizations, [Ed. Robert Holton], in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems ( EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford ...
IFLA's First Fifty Years: Achievement and challenge in ...

IFLA's First Fifty Years: Achievement and challenge in ...

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(75) See H. Liebaers, The librarian as the artisan of reading. In: Unesco Bulletin for Libraries 26, 1972, pp. 122–128. — Mohrhardt F. E. (ed.), Reading in a Changing World. Papers presented at the 38th Session of the IFLA General Council, ...
Waterfronts Revisited: European ports in a historic and ...

Waterfronts Revisited: European ports in a historic and ...

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Using the UNESCO recommendation for the "Historic Urban Landscape" as the guiding concept and a tool for managing urban preservation and change, this collection of essays illustrates solutions to issues of globalisation, commercialization ...
Political Sociology of Adult Education

Political Sociology of Adult Education

Carlos Alberto Torres

This book revitalizes social theory in education, and provides ample evidence of the power of adult learning and education, examining a variety of policy documents connected with the various adult education congresses promoted by the UNESCO ...
Peoples on the Move: Introducing the Nomads of the World

Peoples on the Move: Introducing the Nomads of the World

David J. Phillips

Gufu Oba, "Kenya, Boran: Sharing and Surviving," REB 4 (April 1994), 17-22. Oba is himself a Boran and has worked for UNESCO and the University of Uppsala. See Helland, Five Essays, 48-75. 26. Hunter, Appropriate Development , 97; ...
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence ...

Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence ...

Ronald J. Sider

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics. Data retrieved from World Bank, World Development Indicators, accessed June 10, 2014, http://databank. worldbank.org/. Mara Hvistendahl ...
Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology, and ...

Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology, and ...

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Seeger, Anthony, 'Lessons learned from the ICTM (NGO) evaluation of nominations for the UNESCO Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, 2001–5', in Laurajane Smith and Natsuko Akagawa (eds), Intangible Heritage: ...
Reforming Secondary Education

Reforming Secondary Education

D.Bhaskara Rao

Contents: Part 1 Reform of Secondary Education Introduction: Context, Conference Aims and Organisation, Conference Themes, Comparison of Outcomes from UNESCO Reports from Beijing, Beirut, Bangkok, and Mauritius with the Outcomes of the ...

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