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WaldropWilliamsAkpanChachuvan keulenTobbeMUKHOPADHYAYPEKERWadlerHamadaPetersToddLaskowskiKaurMarschelGilbertsonKhasu
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BobMicheleEdetNinahermanJeanSheilamarieRAKTIMKenanRebeccaDorothyKarenHelenSamanthaNikkiMichelleKenDenis
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Oklahoma CityToledoAbujaAccrawageningenRacineWashington, DCSeattleClevelandKOLKATAKonyaWashington DCBaguio CityDurham, NCChicagoIquitosMadison, WIBangkokMilwaukeeDuluthWashington DCBlacksburg
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Catholic WorkerGrand Canyon UniversityPyramid Cooperative SocietyAshesi University CollegeWURRoman CathArchdiocese of WashingtonNGORoman CatholicBANGIYA UNNAYAN PARISHADAssoc.Prof.Dr.UniversityUnive...
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3rd grade TeacherChairmanHead LibrarianprofessorJoustice OutreachDIRECTORSelcuk UniversityDirector of Sustainability EducationIndependent consultantresearch scientistAssistant Professorhead of schoo...
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this is complicated, I carry on several roles.Poverty Eradication through empowermentInformation ManagereducationProfessional DevelopmentAS TRAINER, EVALUATOR AND RESEARCH GUIDEGender, Rural Develop...
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bwaldrop@cox.netmwilliams002@bellsouth.netakpanedet1@yahoo.comnina_chachu@yahoo.comherman.vankeulen@wur.nljrj718@att.netrburke288@gmail.comkate.heywood@gmail.comraktim2000@gmail.comkenanpeker25@hotm...
Section 1 - Education for Gender Equality
Question 1. How relevant is gender equality/equity for SD and ESD? (required) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Question 2. What factors influenced your relevance ranking? (optional)
Women are half the population!Being the first in the female of completing a Master Degree and being African American.cultural factorinstitutionalDemonstration
of reality esp. in poor countries: women are taking initiative to
connect with women, to start micro lending projects, make and market
women-made artifacts, keep hope alive with strength of person and faith
much motivated by presence of childrenWhole church reality denies human condition, contribution, gifts of
women thus witnessing lack of wholeness, authoritarianism, patriarchy,
nontruth....yet tries to be authority on sexual/re...
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Question 4. What factors influenced your difficulty ranking? (optional)
Cultural
factors will be one of the main reason and the second is institutional
factors of not being born into the right type of family.cultural factorsCultural issues, institutional issues, family constraintsindividual mentality; institutional factorsSee aboveMinds
are made up and not open to new information or to reflection on their
own experience. Furthermore, in today's society, people tend to seek
out like-minded people to be around, making it more difficult for new
ideas or new people to penetrate these invisible but very real barriers
to a more broadminded kind of conversation.Innate...
Section 2. Education for Human Health Promotion
Question 5. How relevant is human health promotion for SD and ESD? (required) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Question 6. What factors influenced your relevance ranking? (optional)
institutionalLack
of access if uneducated and/or poor, cultural patterns: genital cutting
of women in some countries, infanticide, HIV spread by nonuse/non
available condoms, ..............lack of sufficient doctors in some countries, excessive treatment to
forestall law suits.....For
centuries research research and health studies didn't even include
women in spite of the obvious fact that their bodies are different form
men's. The norm did not acknowledge their presence.It is not possible to live a full and fulfilled life without an adequate standard of health and provision of care, esp...
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Question 8. What factors influenced your difficulty ranking? (optional)
The world has become divided into a society of haves and haves not.institutional factorsa matter of resources, and deciding which kind of approach is sustainablecultural
factors; there is NOBODY against improving human health; however, finding funds
to implement such promotional activities remains problematicEducation
is required to effect change and education is always a long-term
venture. No quick fixes! Education sometimes is not only to give new
information but to replace incorrect or inadequate information, and to
change attitudes and accompanying behaviors.Health is a visible issue...
Section 3. Education for Environmental Stewardship
Question 9. How relevant is environmental stewardship for SD and ESD? (required) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Question 10. What factors influenced your relevance ranking? (optional)
Without the earth's biosphere, humanity cannot survive.cultural factors; institutional factorsOveruse
of oil, ignorant of carbon footprint, individualism vs common good,
poor forced to use wood and lose stablizing rooting of trees....Corporations: bottled water...oil, waste, lies; Coke etc. use needed
well water in poor countries..US emissions with coal plants....Forests cut downHabits in Amazon, rainforests destroying insect, medicine balance....The
earth and its ecosystem, including us, are related. The perception is
that for some to take more means that others have less, which...
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Question 12. What factors influenced your difficulty ranking? (optional)
Entrenched political and economic forces hinder effective work to save the planet and thus humanity from ecological dooms.quite
hard to convince people of the need for environmental stewarship,
especially if their day-to-day lives involve regular use of resourcesinstitutional; individualStewardship,
rather than ownership, is our role in sustainable development. It's
hard to convince people to share so that all can have more,
particularly in countries where ownership is a goal of adult life.Awareness is increasing and with that a desire for relevant action. Young people are allied with an ol...
Section 4. Education for Rural Development
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Question 14. What factors influenced your relevance ranking? (optional)
People
in rural areas are typically discriminated against in terms of funding
for government programs and have fewer opportunities for education.
This can promote political instability leading to violence.cultural factors; institutional factorsLittle
regard for small farmer; stacked farm animals vs grazing and need for
antibiotics transferred to humans; treatment of animals; building that
destroys little farms; agribusiness that has bad patterns: bulk travel
many many miles from market, use of pesticides, slave labor, gmo's,
dumping on markets that eliminate income of indigenous workers......
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Question 16. What factors influenced your difficulty ranking? (optional)
Entrenched
political and economic forces combine to stop rural development. Often,
urban economic interest prey on rural economies as parasites, siphoning
off productive wealth and impoverishing the countryside.disregard of urban elite and politicians for the rural areas - except when running for election!institutionalSee aboveThe
key is to convince young people that it is worthwhile for them to stay
in their communities and to enable them to live well. To educate them
to adopt new solutions to old problems and to know that hard work will
bring good results. The stability of rural communiti...
Section 5. Education for Cultural Diversity
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Question 18: What factors influenced your relevance ranking? (optional)
Education for cultural diversty promotes social harmony.Again, I have to say it's cultural factors our society is not very acceptance of people of different culture.cultural factorsIn
U.S. nonwhite populations tend to be concentrated in areas with limited
resources, poor education, low self esteem due to racism, Jails are
predominantly people of color - crimes not treated same; racial
profiling, can't make bail.....
Education system lacking opportunities to learn appreciation for
giftedness, except sports...
Cultural diversity is a fact of life still strongly resisted by many.Super...
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Question 20. What factors influenced your relevance ranking? (optional)
This is getting easier because people recognize its importance.Being an African American female make cultural diversity very important.cultural factorsYounger
generations growing up with more experience with, and respect for, a
more diverse group of people may have to be the ones to teach us.This is a racist society. individiual mentality It can be done but hard work is required - perhaps the existing elites should be sent to labour camps? It depends. Experience, st...
Section 6. Education for Peace and Human Security
Question 21. How relevant are peace and human security for SD and ESD? (required) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Question 22. What factors influenced your relevance ranking? (optional)
War is the destroyer of justice and opportunity.individual mentality; institutional factors; political factorsArsenals
of nuclear weapons, religious extremism often caused by domination of
others, poverty, lack of education, lack of self esteem, competition
fed by consumerism, power, profit makingLack of dialog .......Peace comes before human security -- genuine peace, not just the absence of war.Without
peace among all nations on earth the progress made on every other front
can be wiped out in an instant and take generations to re-establish.
Sadly power struggles within and between coun...
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Question 24. What factors influenced your difficulty ranking? (optional)
Economic
and political interests profit from war, and most people enjoy
"watching" it on television, experiencing vicarious thrills from the
violence.political factorsSometimes
when people say they want peace, they really mean non-involvement.
Peace is something that takes effort from all involved. Human security
[as opposed to national security] takes trust which takes getting to
know people. This poses a major barrier to efforts toward peace.The
most desired state - peace - but one which the majority of people feel
they have little power to bring about Perhaps there is a need to begin
wi...
Section 7. Education for Sustainable Urbanization
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Question 26. What factors influenced your relevance ranking? (optional)
Cities are rapidly becoming cesspools characterized by huge gaps between the poor and the rich.institutional factorsSuburbs
have sucked out resources, people, infrastructure and left cities with
poor education facilities, lack of job opportunity for living wage,
poor housing stock...cultural opportunities...It will require a change
of behavior on the part of the few who possess so much - a giving up of
some ownership, control, status, etcThe key to the whole problem. cultural get rid of...
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Question 28. What factors influenced your difficulty ranking? (optional)
Entrenched
economic and political interests resist anything that reduces their
ability to parasitize the poor. But they run the risk of igniting
social rebellion. Today's ruling classes are as blind as the French
aristocracy in 1789 or the Russian aristocracy in 1917.institutional factorsIn
the process of urbanization, a few typically made lots of money from
the labor of many. Changing the status quo is always difficult. It
requires the will of those who have most to lose [in terms of material
good] and much to gain in terms of human developmentThe pace and competition of our USA lifesty...
Section 8. Education for Sustainable Consumption
Question 29. How relevant is sustainable consumption for SD and ESD? (required) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Question 30. What factors influenced your relevance ranking? (optional)
This is a basic aspect of education for ecological sanity.most people in the developing world do not believe in this, as they feel they are still struggling to catch upindividual mentalityMedia
and advertising promote sugar/caloric diets, esp. to children thus
promoting diabetes and obesity.In- take way out of balance. Schools provide soda in vending machines;
vegetables not readily available, cooked, Gardens beginning to appear;Health care cost control depends on educated, better consumption
patterns....Consumption is impacted by what people already have. No one wants to give it up....
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Question 32. What factors influenced your difficulty ranking? (optional)
Economic
and political Structures promote greed and the unity of "identity" with
"stuff", as in "You are your stuff, you have no existence other than
your ability to accumulate stuff.individual mentalityEven
those who are not major consumers because of lack of resources are
already tainted by TV knowledge of things they want to have the minute
they can. Consumerism is learned behavior and it will take long-term
strategies to educate us out of it. our lifestyle! pigs at the trough always eat as much as they can get In the face of poverty or ...
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