This book presents the results of a joint meeting organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences where renowned international scholars discussed the importance of education in an increasingly globalized world. The papers cover a wide range of topics, including immigration, education in developing countries, knowledge transfer, social, economic, cultural, and political conditions in global education, technology, communication, access to information and knowledge, as well as, bio-anthropological issues.
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New Approaches to Education in the Globalized World
Howard E. Gardner; Nicholas Negroponte; M. Govind Kumar Menon
The Role of Communication and Information Technologies
Michel Serres; Mortimer Zuckerman; Rajendra S. Pawar / Manas Chakrabarti / Sugata Mitra
The Effects of Globalization on Education
David E. Bloom; Mohamed H.A. Hassan
Education of Immigrants and their Children
Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco / Carola Suárez-Orozco; Louis-André Vallet
Education and Cultural Diversity
Wei Yu; Jean-Claude Berthélemy; Mina M. Ramirez; Juan J. Llach
Which Anthropological Bases for Education and Research?
Jean-Didier Vincent; Jürgen Mittelstrass
Statement on Globalization and Education
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