A double issue, Nos. 79&80, of the Quarterly Bulletin, 'Families International', published by the Vienna NGO Committee on the Family, is available online for downloading at: www.viennafamilycommittee.org.
This double issue focuses on preparations for the 20th anniversary of the International Year of the Family.
23 Jan, 2012, Sustainability Frontiers Green Teacher Webinar, Deep Climate Change Education: Learning and Teaching for Personal and Social Transformation
On Thursday 8 March 2012, 7:30pm to 8:30pm Eastern Standard Time Canada, Fumiyo Kagawa and David Selby will present a Webinar in the much-heralded Winter 2011-2012 Green Teacher Webinar Series.
Building on their Fall 2011 article in Green Teacher, Fumiyo Kagawa and David Selby will critique mainstream manifestations of climate change education as a shallow and insufficient response to the global and human condition. They will offer an elaboration of a 'deep climate change education' that examines values issues, explores the dynamics of climate change avoidance and denial, investigates the complicity of economic growth in fomenting climate change while cultivating intimacy with nature, an ethic of denizenship, and commitment to global climate justice. The links between climate change education, sustainability education and disaster risk reduction education will be explored, the whole being exemplified through practical activities. The event is for both both formal and non-formal youth educators.
For details, go to: http://www.greenteachercom/webinars.html
To register for the event (registration free or with donation), go to: http://greenteacherwebinarselbykagawa.eventbrite.ca/?ebtv=C
On May 26-27, 2011, the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) held a conference on financial literacy in Toronto, Canada. The conference drew some 400 experts and practitioners from around the world.
The conference participants came together and discussed:
We invite you to view the Conference’s report
prepared by FCAC and entitled
The Future of Financial Education
For more information
The latest issue of the Newsletter on Measuring the Progress of Societies is now available.
Included in this issue:
Visit Wikiprogress and learn and share knowledge on progress measurement initiatives worldwide, including contributions from key researchers; consult the extensive ongoing media review; see details on progress-related events; and view over 120 progress-related data sets.
Movement
Transformative Consumer Research is a movement within the Association for Consumer Research that seeks to encourage, support, and publicize research that benefits consumer welfare and quality of life for all beings affected by consumption across the world. The ACR website includes information about symposia, research funds, publications, and other resources and opportunities for scholars wishing to be involved in Transformative Consumer Research via the association. Click here to learn and to participate more.
Book
Transformative Consumer Research (For Personal and Collective Well-Being)
From: Carol Kellett, Executive Director, APLU Board on Human Sciences
With pride, we are pleased to invite you to participate in the March 2012 Board on Human Sciences Conference and Youth Obesity Prevention Summit. BoHS members have worked diligently to plan one of the most exciting and relevant programs in many years. Outstanding speakers will inform and inspire members and their guests. We begin on Wednesday, March 7 at 11:00 a.m. with the opening session of the Youth Obesity Prevention Summit and conclude on Friday at 12:00 noon. Details regarding the schedule are on the new BoHS web site at www.thebohs.org. Please share the invitation with colleagues, associate and assistant deans, department heads and faculty.
The GSA (U.S. General Services Administration) posted a video on kids.gov about the Cooperative Extension System's Reality Store/Real Money, Real World for middle-school and high-school students.
Thanks to Jennifer Abel - Senior Extension Agent, Family and Consumer Sciences, Virginia Cooperative Extension, Arlington County who worked with the GSA kids.gov staff and participated in the video interview. You can view the video here:
http://www.kids.gov/video/reality_store.shtml (Quicktime required)
http://www.youtube.com/kidsgov
Program Description:
Each year, America's high schools graduate thousands of young adults who are unprepared in matters of employment and financial decisions. Nationwide Cooperative Extension Family and Consumer Sciences and 4-H Youth Development educators have written and are delivering a results-oriented program known as Reality Store or Real Money, Real World. These personal financial curricula simulate real-life experiences to help youth become aware of the money management skills they need. All programs are designed to be a partnership between the county Cooperative Extension Office, the school, and the business community.
To locate and contact your local Cooperative Extension Service go to: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/Extension/index.html
Abstract It is paramount that higher education programs in home economics remain ever vigilant regrading how they are designed because they socialise individuals into the profession, and deeply affect the formation of home economics professional identities, how people see themselves as a home economist and identify with the profession. This paper discusses the link between higher education home economics programs and future-proofing the profession through a well-thought out pre professional socialisation process. Well-planned socialisation processes better ensure a commitment to the home economics professional culture and community, and to deeply entrenched alignment with a positive home economics identity.
Home Economics in Higher Education: Preprofessional Socialization - McGregor, S.L.T. (2011)
The PowerPoint presentation linked below will be presented in a workshop at the NCFR Meeting, November 16-19, 2011 in Orlando, FL.The workshop focuses on how to use the Domains of Family Practice (DFP) model described in the manuscript. There is a link on one of the slides to a website in which the authors will be posting materials and resources related to this work. (Permission granted by the authors.)
Powerpoint Presentation:
The Domains of
Family Practice Model: Strategies for Application
Manuscript:
Reconceptualizing the Domain and Boundaries of Family Life Education
Citation: Family Relations 60 (October 2011): 357 - 372
DOI:10.1111/j.1741-3729.2011.00659.x
Authors:
JUDITH A. MYERS-WALLS Purdue University
SHARON M. BALLARD East Carolina University
CAROL ANDERSON DARLING Florida State University
KAREN S. MYERS-BOWMAN Kansas State University
2012 THEME: THE GEOGRAPHY OF SUSTAINABILITY GUEST EDITOR: FAUSTO O. SARMIENTO, Ph.D.
As the 21st century develops, so, too our understanding and application of sustainability concepts will emerge and mature. We must confront the realities of a world where multiple regions and cultures dominate as we forge ahead through the decades in which human population will reach its peak and the production of carbon-based energy will decline. Crucial to the development of this new paradigm for sustainability will be a cross-cultural and multi-regional framework in which geography, with its inherent incorporation of the cultural and the physical, from the micro- to the meta-level, must play a central role. In this spirit, we solicit scholarly and punctual contributions on the theme of “the geography of sustainability.” Preference will be given to authors who address the emerging binaries that guide our understanding and education about sustainability: North versus South; Natural versus Cultural; Carbon-based versus Electron-based; Urban versus Rural; Traditional versus Modern. JSE emphasizes how we teach and learn about these important topics in formal, as well as informal settings at all stages of life. For details on prospective manuscripts, please contact Fausto O. Sarmiento (fsarmien@uga.edu) University of Georgia geography professor who serves as Guest Editor for this special issue of JSE on the Geography of Sustainability.
