Sentences with phrase «including global literacy»
While all subjects are interdisciplinary (either because they are foundational and thus a part of many other disciplines, or because they are new and thus a composite of many disciplines), there are also important modern themes that should be highlighted throughout both modern and traditional disciplines, including Global literacy, Environmental literacy, Information literacy, Digital literacy, Systems thinking, and Design thinking.
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It requires addressing interlocked issues encompassing many of the Global Goals — including water, climate change and land degradation, but also access to finance, gender equality and even literacy, which all affect farmers» ability to produce good quality crops.
Students demonstrate competency in the Board's core quality standards (which include literacy, mathematical content, scientific inquiry, global citizenship, physical education, artistic expression and transferable skills); and
Themes include: global awareness, financial literacy, civic literacy, health literacy and environmental literacy.
Other global surveys include the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMMS) and Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) published in December 2012.
«We are proud to partner with the NYPL to open up new horizons for New Yorkers with print disabilities by offering them access to Bookshare's extensive collection of accessible ebooks free of charge, for use on a wide variety of devices including mobile phones and tablets,» says Brad Turner, Vice President of Global Literacy at Benetech.
His address officially begins the United Nation's Sustainable Development Summit where global leaders aim to tackle numerous topics, including poverty, literacy, health and environmental issues.
From these studies, a complex range of factors, including behavioural economics (Grothmann and Patt, 2005), national aspirations and socio - political goals (Haddad, 2005), governance, civil and political rights and literacy, economic well - being and stability, demographic structure, global interconnectivity, institutional stability and well - being, and natural resource dependence (Adger and Vincent, 2005), are all emerging as powerful determinants of vulnerability and the capacity to adapt to climate change.