THE INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON THE EVOLUTION OF WORLD ORDER (EWOC) and SCIENCE FOR PEACE ROUND TABLE - Appropriate Political and Legal Structures - Necessary Steps to Full Spectrum Justice, Peace, and Ecological Integrity

presents...

A *Video Conference on the IMPLEMENTATION OF GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION.

For All Teachers and Educational Policy Makers; Ministries of Education; School Boards, Educators; Curriculum Developers; Sustainability Specialists; Environmentalists; and interested Students.

REGISTRATION AND SITE INFORMATION: Wayne Jacoby: GEM email: gem@chu.edu

DATE: Wednesday, October 13, 2004. Time: 1300–1500 Canadian Eastern Central

CHAIR: Julia Morton-Marr, Chair of Global Sustainability Education of the Council of Global Issues, President of IHTEC

SPEAKERS: 10 minutes each, YOUR Questions 5 minutes between each speaker.

ONGOING DISCUSSION: " through mailto:sust-edu-subscribe@yahoogroups.com (bio on request).

KEYNOTE: Dr. Paul CAPPON - Director-General, Council of Ministers of Education in Canada * * * * Prof. Helmut BURKHARDT – Universal Values, Three Pillars of Sustainability. * * * * Julia MORTON-MARR – Global Sustainability Education Policy and Lesson Plans including GSE through International School Peace Gardens program. * * * * Laura WESTRA – Ecological Integrity and The Earth Charter * * * * Rose DYSON – The Use of Media in Sustainability Education * * * * Brandon GALLANT – Introducing University Course on Global Issues * * * * Eric SCHNEIDER – Launch of the ‘World Future School’, a GSE Online Learning Platform. * * * * Heiner BENKING - A Global Embodied Covenant, using Models, not only Systems and Words in Education.

*A LIVE, INTERACTIVE ** VIDEO CONFERENCE TO SELECTED SITES IN CANADA, GERMANY AND USA **ISDN/IP VIDEO CONFERENCE

Cover of the book - image to view & download (JPEG)

Table of Contents - 2 pages - text for download (PDF)

Time Table - 2 pages - text for download (RTF)

Video Conference Flyer - 3 pages - text for download (PDF)

Julia Morton-Marr: 

Introductory Comments to the Video Conference, Chair of Global Sustainability Education (Council on Global Issues / EWOC) 

ONLINE SLIDE SHOW: EWOC Video Conference 2004 (400KB)

paper online & text for download (2 pages) (PDF)

Helmut Burkhardt:

"The Foundations of Sustainability Education" - 2 pages - online and text for download (PDF)

"Universal Values and the Three Pillars of Sustainability" - slideshow - online-slideshow & powerpoint slideshow for download (PPT)

"Global Action Priorities for a Sustainable Civilization" - 1 page - online & text for download (PDF)

Laura Westra:

"Environmental Ethics: The Earth Charter: From Global Ethics to International Law Instrument: An Introduction" - 7 pages - text for download (PDF)

Rose Dyson:

"The Cultural Environment: Use of Media in Sustainability Education" - 4 pages - online & text for download (PDF)

Julia Morton-Marr:

"Global Sustainability Education Curricula and Lesson Plans including GSE through IHTEC's International School Peace Gardens (ISPG)" - 2 pages - online and text for download (RTF)

"IHTEC Definitions of Global Sust Education" - 2 pages - online

"IHTEC poster" - image to view & download (JPEG)

"IHTEC Values for our classroom" - 1 page - text for download (PDF)

LESSON PLANS: a. "State of the World" - online & text for download (PDF) b. "Butterflies Breath" - online & text for download (PDF) c. "MEETS Mountains on Earth Expansively Touching Space" - online & text for download (PDF) & MEETS Slide Show - online & slideshow for download - nurturing global citizenship

"The Global Commons" - slideshow - online & powerpoint slideshow for download (EXE)

Brandon Gallant:

Abstract: "University Course Proposal: The Evolution of World Order" - 1 page- online & text for download (PDF)

"Speech" - 2 pages -online & text for download (PDF), slideshow online-slideshow & slideshow for download (...)

Eric Schneider:

"ISLE Informal Sustainability Learning Environments" - 2 pages - online & text for download (PDF)

"Development of the World Future School Online Campus" - 1 page - online & text for download (PDF)

"World Future School presentation" - 11 slides - online-slideshow & powerpoint slideshow for download (PPT)

"WFS Learning Roadmap to Continent Future" - 1 page - online & text for download (DOC)

"An ISLE example: Positive News Your Views - Youth Leadership Online Magazine & POSITIVE NEWSBOARD IN SCHOOLS" - 1 page - poster to view & download (PDF) Now online at www.PNYV.org !

Heiner Benking:

"A Global, Embodied Covenant: Using Models, not only Systems and Words in Education" - 21 slides - online-slideshow & powerpoint slideshow for download (PPT)

Desmond Berghofer:

"Creating a Knowledge Society: The Building BLocks of a New Transcendent Humanity" - 25 pages - online & text for download (PDF)

Research the terms "Global Sustainability Education - GSE" for the "UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development" visit the "New GSE Resources" lower section of http://www.ihtec.org/?id=137

Know what the "global commons" are.

Read and know "The Earth Charter" http://www.earthcharter.org/innerpg.cfm?id_menu=19

Read "Ecological Integrity: Integrating Environment, Conservation, and Health",  David Pimentel, Laura Westra, Reed F. Noss (publishers), Publisher: Island Press; (January 1, 2001) ISBN: 1559638087

Understand the term Read "The Interdisciplinary Conference on the Evolution of World Order - EWOC" www.ryerson.ca/~woc

Read the EWOC "Global Action Priorities for a Sustainable Civilization" http://www.ihtec.org/fileadmin/archives/IHTEC/documents/Global_Action_Priorities.rtf

Have students begin to research the "State of the World Lesson Plan". http://www.ihtec.org/fileadmin/archives/IHTEC/documents/State_of_the_World_Lesson_Plan.pdf

Read through all the curriculum ideas from IHTEC at www.ihtec.org.

Find ways to teach curriculum related to Global Sustainability Education.

Visit www.worldfutureschool.org and find out how your school can participate in avantgarde GSE activities.

Initiate discussion within your school, for the implementation of an International School Peace Garden (ISPG).

Download from http://www.ihtec.org/?id=137 the ISPG Teacher’s Resources http://www.ihtec.org/fileadmin/archives/IHTEC/documents/teachers_resources.pdfand ISPG brochure.

Conference Committee: Anatol Rapoport (University of Toronto), Helmut Burkhardt (Ryerson University, Council on Global issues, Canadian Section of the International Society for the Systems Sciences), Don Chisholm (Gaia Preservation Coalition), Rose Dyson (Canadians Concerned About Violence in Entertainment (C-CAVE), Brandon Gallant (World Youth Forum), Eva Gerold (Toronto), Tony Meers (Soka Gakkai International of Canada), Julia Morton-Marr, (International Holistic Tourism Education Centre-IHTEC), Joanne Naiman (Ryerson University), Suwanda Sugunasiri (Nalanda College of Buddhist Studies), Laura Westra (York University), Ross Wilcock (Science for Peace), Walter Zessner (Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Toronto).

Sponsors and Supporters: Ryerson University, Science for Peace, Council on Global Issues, Global Ecological Integrity Project, Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Toronto Branch, International Holistic Tourism Education Centre (IHTEC), Nalanda College of Buddhist Studies, Canadians Concerned About Violence in Entertainment (C-CAVE), Global Education Motivators (GEM)

All electronically submitted abstracts and papers (.doc or .rtf format) will be published for download on the conference website at http://www.ihtec.org/index.php?id=202. The video conference will be available web based, post conference. A selection of results will be published in hard copy proceedings.

Website: see www.ryerson.ca/~woc

Helmut Burkhardt, EWOC Chair; Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5B 2K3 Tel. 416-979-5000x7246, Fax: 416-979-5064, Email: burkhard@ryerson.ca

Julia Morton-Marr, Chair, Sustainability Education. email: julia@ihtec.on.ca current roles include:

1. International Holistic Tourism Education Centre - IHTEC, President, focused developing curriculum content for schools in Global Sustainability Education (GSE).

2. Council on Global Issues, Vice-president, Education. CGI organize 'The Inter-disciplinary Conference on the Evolution of World Order' (EWOC), Ryerson University, Co-Chair, Sustainability Education, http://www.ryerson.ca/~woc

3. Science for Peace (SfP) Board, Lead on Education for Peace and Sustainability Working Group. http://scienceforpeace.sa.utoronto.ca

Julia's Bio is on http://www.ihtec.org/ Look under Board.