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12 May 2007
12:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Capitol Hilton
1001 16th St. NW
Washington, DC 20036 |
Education for Sustainability |
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Select the title of each presentation for full details: 
12:30 p.m.
Introduction by the Symposium Organizer |
John R. Jungck
Chairperson, U. S. National Committee IUBS and Vice President, IUBS Commission on Biology Education |
12:45 p.m.
History of the IUBS Commission on Biology Education |
Dr. Talal Younes
Executive Director
IUBS, Paris, France |
1:00 p.m.
Māori and Western World Views Shape a Strong Environmental Ethic in Aotearoa/New Zealand |
Dr. Charles H. Daugherty, Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Research); Professor of Ecology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Co-author: Kristina Ramstad |
1:30 p.m.
Data enriched sustainability in a megabiodiverse world - Challenges and Potentials |
Vishwas Chavan, Scientist Information Division, National Chemical Laboratory
Pune, INDIA |
2:00 p.m.
Engaging Students in Sustainability Issues: Investigative Cases, Tools and Data |
Dr. Margaret Waterman, Professor of Biology & Director, Center for Teaching and Learning,
Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO, and Associate Director, BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium |
2:30 p.m. Break
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3:00 p.m.
Towards a New Generation of Naturalist Citizens: INBio’s Bioliteracy Program |
Natalia Zamora
Director,
National Biodiversity Institute (INBioParque)
Costa Rica |
3:30 p.m.
Practising Education for Sustainable Development through Environmental Action Learning : A case of Eco-schools in Kenya |
Dorcas Otieno
Director, Kenya Organization for Environmental Education |
4:00 p.m.
Teaching and Mediating a Sustainability Science |
André Giordan, President, IUBS Commission on Biology Education and Founder and Professor, the Laboratoire de didactique et épistémologie des sciences (LDES),
University of Geneva, Switzerland |
4:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion
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