Eco-Schools working for sustainable development

Eco-schools: ...challenging long-term aspirations for schools to mainstream learning about sustainable development issues and sustainable practices into everyday school life.

Eco-Schools is an international award programme that guides schools on their sustainable journey, providing a framework to help embed these principles into the heart of school life.

Eco-Schools is one of five environmental education programmes run internationally by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE).

There are 40 countries around the world that run the Eco-Schools programme, linking more than 40,000 schools – from the UK to France, from Morocco to South Africa.

It is now easy for Eco-Schools across the world to get in touch and explore ways of working together on environmental issues. Visit http://www.eco-schools.net/ where you will find instructions on how to register your school and carry out a search. After finding an Eco-School that matches your criteria, you can then contact the ‘match’ school by post, telephone or email

Text source: Eco-schools.org

African-American history

Source: Museum of African American History and Culture

Reginald Lewis Museum

African American Empowerment (.blogspot)

Slavery (SES 10)

Slave being freed by British Royal Navy. photographed by Seaman Joseph Chidwick, on board HMS Sphinx off the East African coast in about 1907.

* Remembering slavery (Smithsonian. USA)

“As unimaginable as it seems, slavery and bondage still persist in the early 21st century. Millions of people around the world still suffer in silence in slave-like situations of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation from which they cannot free themselves. Trafficking in persons is one of the greatest human rights challenges of our time.” Source: US State Department

* Human trafficking and modern day slavery (website created by Prof. Martin Patt, Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts)

* Anti-slavery international (antislavery.org)
* Human trafficking (worldrevolution.org)

The United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) was conceived to join forces and coordinate the global fight on human trafficking, on the basis of foremost international agreement reached at the United Nations. To date over 110 countries have signed the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons especially Women and Children... Source: ungift.org

Trafficking in persons — the illegal and highly profitable recruitment, transport, or sale of human beings for the purpose of exploiting their labor — is a slavery-like practice that must be eliminated. The trafficking of women and children into bonded sweatshop labor, forced marriage, forced prostitution, domestic servitude, and other kinds of work is a global phenomenon. Traffickers use coercive tactics including deception, fraud, intimidation, isolation, threat and use of physical force, and/or debt bondage to control their victims. Women are typically recruited with promises of good jobs in other countries or provinces, and, lacking better options at home, agree to migrate. Source: Human rights watch

* William Wilberforce (theologian.org.uk)

Population (SES 6)

* World population figures and prospects (Geohive)

Building the Social and Environmental Science site

We are building the skeleton of our site at present.

It will take some months for it to take shape.

The site will link TALULAR (Teaching And Learning Using Locally Available Resources) ideas to the learning areas found in African teacher education.

Please feel free to check our links and content as it develops.

Socialisation

* answers.com: The process whereby a child learns to get along with and to behave similarly to other people in the group, largely through imitation as well as group pressure. Plus many more references and links.
* reference.com: 8 references to socialisation
* Wikipedia: The term socialization is used by sociologists, social psychologists and educationalists to refer to the process of learning one’s culture and how to live within it. For the individual it provides the resources necessary for acting and participating within their society. For the society, inducting all individual members into its moral norms, attitudes, values, motives, social roles, language and symbols is the ‘means by which social and cultural continuity are attained’ (Clausen 1968)...
Some links from wikipedia:
1 Socialization
2 Forms of socialization
3 Agents of Socialization
3.1 Media and socialization
3.2 Total institutions
3.3 Gender socialization and gender roles

* The concern has been raised by certain agencies that our children may not be receiving sufficient opportunity to socialise with their peers and persons outside our communities. This concern is expressed because of our communal lifestyle, our deeply held religious convictions (which we pass on to our children), and because many of us have chosen to home school our children. (Source: A biblical view from The Family)

http://www.sociology.org.uk/p2c5n2.htm
* The sociological theory is that of culture and socialisation. In basic terms, the idea is that we are born into a society that has certain rules of .behaviour

SES 1 Social and environmental science syllabus

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