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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOLOGICAL,PHYSIOLOGICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES,ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHEMICAL SCIENCES,ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WATER SCIENCES,ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENERGY SCIENCES,ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL SCIENCES,ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES,ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HUMAN RESOURCES POLICY AND MANAGEMENT ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NATURAL RESOURCES POLICY AND MANAGEMENT ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC RESOURCES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INSTITUTIONAL AND INFRASTRUCTURAL RESOURCES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TECHNOLOGY,INFORMATION, AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT RESOURCES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF REGIONAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT REVIEWS

The above simplified figure illuminates the essential interconnectedness of the sixteen component encyclopedias of EOLSS.

 In the real world, the various knowledge domains do not exist in isolation from each other. They form an integrated whole, with links in all directions. It is well known that all forms of human knowledge are inter-connected and inter-related. EOLSS mimics this complexity, the automatic inter-connectedness of the various subject categories facilitating navigation through the vast landscape of EOLSS knowledge. This provides the user with an effective and efficient tool to search, navigate and browse through each of the component encyclopedias, through any combination of the sixteen, or through the whole of EOLSS.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

CONTENT OUTLINE (partial listing)

 

MANAGEMENT

Management Organizational Structures

Program and Project Management

Cost Estimation Methods, and Work and Cost Breakdown Structures

Human and Cognitive Factors in Management

Management, and Knowledge Management and Complex Adaptive Systems

 

EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY

The Ecological Imperative

Education and Sustainability: Problems and Obstacles

Education for Sustainability: the Evolution of a Concept

Growing Momentum for Educational and Cultural Change

The Content and Structure of this Theme

 

THE AIMS OF EDUCATION IN AN AGE OF STASIS AND CHANGE

The role of theory in the aims of education

The liberal tradition

Competing analysis of educational aims

 

EDUCATION, SUSTAINABILITY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS

Utilitarian and Duty-Oriented Approaches to Environmental Issues

Cost Externalization

The Ecological Problem

Laws of Thermodynamics and the Ecological Problem

Economic Growth and the Ecological Problem

The Limits of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a Measure of Well-Being

Sustainable Economies

Steady-State Economics: What is it?

Moving to a Steady-State Economy

Depletion Allowances

Pollution Allowances

Limiting Population Growth

Protecting Natural Habitat

 

THE POLITICS OF LEARNING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The Technocratic Perspective

The Paradigm Shift Perspective

Task-based Perspectives: Social, Environmental and Educative

The social change focus

The environmental change focus

The educative focus

The Globalisation Perspective

The Segments Perspective

The Metaphorical Perspective

The Pragmatic Perspective

Some Commonalities

Multiple rationalities

Taxonomy of Perspectives

 

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ISSUES IN EDUCATION

Education as the Transmission of Culture

Human Ecology and the Organization of Culture

Stratification and Cultural Hierarchies

Social Change, Local Cultures, and the Maintenance of Culture

Culture, Communication, and Symbolic Meaning

Formal Education: The School

School Expansion

Schooling, Mass Society, and Social Mobility

Schooling and Public versus Private Interests

Literacy and the Nation-State

Literacy as a Quality of Life Indicator

Literacy and the Global Economy

Potential of Education Systems and the Future

Technology as A Product of Education Systems

Strength of Weak Ties and the Human Condition

Education and the Natural Environment

Multicultural Education

 

POLICY, PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT IN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS: ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY

Policy

Planning

Management

 

KNOWLEDGE OF THE FUTURE AND THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN CREATING ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY.

Global Protests

Individualism and Ethnocentrism

Rights of Future Generations

Energy Sustainability

Paying for Externalities

Shifting to a New Mode of Agriculture

Implications for Schools

Students as Citizen Planners

Designing a World Future

 

EDUCATION, TRADITION, HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE AND SUSTAINABILITY

What is the role of tradition in the creation of a sustainable culture?

What is the role of historical knowledge?

What is the relationship between tradition and history?

What should be the role and function of history and tradition in the educational system?

 

CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE FOR THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE

Cultural knowledge

Educating for dominant cultural knowledge

Community

Ecological solution finding

 

ESSENTIAL EARTH LEARNING CONCEPTS FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

Essential Concepts

There Is No Environment

Earth Is Alive

Evolution Is Not A Theory

Earth Is Learning and Teaching

Earth Is Slow, Culture Is Fast

Earth Is Primary, Humans Are Derivative

Sustainability Requires Living In Place

Earth Is A Recycling Planet

There Are No Second Chances

Humanity Must Be the Change

 

EARTH ETHICS, EARTH LITERACY, AND THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

The Community College Context

The Obligations

The Case of Miami Dade College

Earth Literacy

Earth Ethics

Earth Ethics Institute

Curriculum Factors

Implementation Issues

The Next Steps

 

SUSTAINABILITY AND UNIVERSITIES

Introduction/The Relationship of Universities and Sustainability

Promotion of Sustainability in Universities

Progress in Campus Operations

Characteristics of a Green University

Motivation and Support for University Greening

Staff Dedicated to Greening

Committees

Environment policies

Funding Allocation

Involvement of Students

Use of Management Systems

Progress in Curriculum

Dimensions of education for sustainable development

Pedagogy for Education for Sustainable Development

Staff training and development

Engagement with Local Community

Research in the Field

 

The Red Queen Effect:  Roles for Adult Education in Social Sustainability

The Learning Connection

Existing Demands for Learning

Decentralization, democratization and citizen participation

Human resource development and continuing training

Organizational learning and the learning organization

Multiculturalism and multilingual competence

Conflict resolution and peace studies

Human growth potential

Information mastery

Learning for Sustainability

Differential Demand and Differential Sustainability

Provision of Learning Opportunities

More joy in heaven.

Developing the learning environment

Education by All

Harnessing the Red Queen

 

EDUCATION, LIFELONG LEARNING AND LEISURE

Aims of Education

Ancient Origins of Education and Leisure

Modern Conceptions of Education and Leisure

Education for Leisure

Cultural Continuity

Illustrative Propositions

Physical Education and Sport

School Health Education.

The Challenge Ahead

 

HOLISTIC EDUCATION: LEARNING FOR AN INTERCONNECTED WORLD

Historical Roots of Holistic Education

Holistic Learning

Linear Thinking and Intuition

Relationship between Mind and Body

Movement Education

Drama

Subject Connections

Curriculum Integration

Community Connections

Earth Connections

Self Connections

Examples of Holistic Education

Waldorf Education

Eurythmy

Main Lesson

Montessori Education

Krishnamurti

The Rajghat Besant School

Brockwood Park School

Other Examples

 

THE ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSIONS OF THE HOLISTIC CURRICULUM

The nature of curriculum

Paradigm tensions

Curriculum Tensions

The ecological dimension

Curriculum schemes

Curriculum as part of the whole

Reorienting curriculum

A connective pattern - curriculum, learning and sustainability

 

EDUCATIONAL POLICY AND PRACTICE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

From Environmental Education to Education for Sustainability: A Troubled History

Education for Sustainability: A Troubled Present

Worrying Evidence

Levels of student interest in the environment

Knowledge and understanding of sustainability concepts

The willingness and ability of students to practice civic responsibility to care for Earth

Reorienting Schools for Sustainability

Renewing the Vision of Education

Generating New Educational Practices

The knowledge base of sustainability

Education and sustainability

Key Concepts in a Curriculum for Sustainability

Teaching and Learning Approaches

Reforming the structures of schooling

 

DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION AND GRASSROOTS MOVEMENTS FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

The Genocidal Nature of Development

The Rise of the Alien National Pattern (and Genocide) in Europe

The State and the Market Function of Compulsory Schooling

Compulsory Schooling as Cultural Genocide

 

EDUCATION POLICY AND GENDER ISSUES: A SUSTAINABILITY PERSPECTIVE

Exclusion from Education

Gender and exclusion from education

Policy

History of International Conferences and Conventions Related to Education

Education and Development

Gender and Education

Education and population

Education and maternal, infant, and child mortality

Educational attainment of children

Education and gender equity

Equity and Equality

The Link between Education and Sustainability

Thresholds of Education and Sustainability

What is Education for Sustainability

Basic education

Reorienting education

Public awareness

Training

Societal Barriers to Schooling

Women and Adult Literacy Programs

Relevance of Literacy Programs

Barriers to participation in literacy programs

Lessons learned in literacy programs

Recent Progress and Lessons Learned

 

A Comparative Study of Cultural Conservation among Minority Groups:  The Basques and Sustainable Ethnicity in an Age of Globalization

The Fluid Nature of Nationalism and the Creation of the Rural

The Case of the Basque:  Globalization and the Struggle for Rural Identity

Resisting Static Understandings of "Rural" and the Shaping of Identity

Economic Backwardness-The Basque Example

Uneven Development

Modernization : the Basque Response

Other Conceptions of Nationalism and Identity:  Arana's Legacy

The Rise of Radicalism

Schooling and Politics-Preserving the Basque Language

The Challenge of Rescuing the Basque Language - Regional Politics

Lessons for and perhaps from Present Basque Nationalism

 

INDIGENOUS AND NEOTRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS AND THEIR ROLE IN CREATING AND MAINTAINING ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY

Indigenous and Neotraditional Knowledge

The Development of Alternative Knowledge Systems

Ways and Results of Knowing

Knowledge Transmission among Indigenous Groups

Sustainable Development

Resilience and Scale in Development

Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Effects of Globalization on Alternative Knowledge Systems

Differing Definitions of the Commons and Bio-Cultural Diversity

Bio-Imperialism

The Green Revolution

Intellectual Property Rights

Cultural Disintegration

Valuing and Protecting Alternative Knowledge Systems

The Role of the UN

The Role of Academia

Indigenous Activism

The Role of NGOs and Governments

The Role of IKS in Development and Education

 

EDUCATION, THE INDIVIDUAL, AND CONSUMERISM

Technology in Education Reinforces Consumerism

Computer Mediated Learning

Consumerism Targets Students

Globalization of Consumerism

The Undermining of Community and the Reinforcement of Consumerism

Individualism Leads to Consumerism

Undermining Traditions

Nature of Traditions

Analysis of Traditions

 

SYNTAX

Basic syntactic concepts

Organizational principles of grammatical structure

Constituency

Dependency

Embedding and recursiveness

Subordination and coordination

Word order

Syntactic units

Phrases

Types of phrases

Structure of phrases

Clauses and sentences

Valency

Grammatical relations

Types of clauses and sentences

 

SEMANTICS

Introduction

Semantics and Related Disciplines

The Linguistic Sign

Semantic Principles

Lexical Semantics

Semantic Relations and Semantic Fields

Componential Analysis

Sentence Semantics

Semantic Roles

Generative /vs./ Interpretive Semantics

The Standard Theory

Pustejovsky's Generative Lexicon

Formal Semantics

Statement Logic (SL)

First Order Predicate Logic (FOPL)

Events Semantics

Second Order Logic

Lambda Calculus

Generalized Quantifier Theory

Intensional semantics

Dynamic Semantics (DS)

Further Semantics

 

SOCIOLINGUISTIC VARIATION AND CHANGE

Sociolinguistics and the Study of Variation and Change

Is Variation "Free" or Structured?

The Role of Constraints on Variation

Methods for Studying Variation and Change

Linguistic Constraints on Variation

Progress of Change 

Apparent Time

Social Dimensions of Variation

Style Effects

Stylistic Stratification of Variables

Stereotypes, Markers, Indicators and the Speech Community

Social Class or Social Network Effects 

Gender Effects 

Directions in the Sociolinguistic Study of Variation and Change

 

SIGN LANGUAGES

The visual-gestural nature of sign languages

Sign language articulators

The signing space

The grammar of sign languages

Form-meaning relationships in sign languages

Sign language phonology

Sign language morphology

Compounding

Derivation

Inflection

Sign language syntax

The sociolinguistics of sign languages

Historical documentation of sign languages

Social and educational changes in the 19th century

Deaf communities as linguistic minorities

The acquisition of sign languages

The acquisition of sign language as a mother tongue

The acquisition of sign language as a second language

Sign bilingual acquisition

Sign bilingual education

The bilingual acquisition of a signed and a written language

Sign bilingualism

Types of bilingualism

Sign language contact

 

PIDGINS AND CREOLES

Some general properties of pidgins and creoles

Pidgins: Incipient communication

Chinese Pidgin English

Russenorsk.

Hawaiian Pidgin English

Creoles: Expansion, stabilization and variability

Basilect

Acrolect

Mesolect

Theoretical models and current trends in PC studies

Early models

Substratist position

Universalist position

Developments of the substratist position

Monogenesis

Relexification

Substrates and adstrates

Superstrates

Developments of the universalist position: The bioprogram

The (post)creole continuum and decreolization

New trends

Sociohistorical evidence

Demographic explanations

Acquisition

 

CODE-SWITCHING

Definitions and terminology

Code-switching vs. borrowing

Code-switching vs. code-mixing

Various approaches to studying code-switching

Sociolinguistic approach

Structural approach

Structural constraints on code-switching

Attitudes toward code-switching

 

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

What is Computational Linguistics?

A few sketches in the history of Computational Linguistics

Automatic text processing

Parsing

Computational lexicons and ontologies

Acquisition methodologies

Applications

Infrastructural Language Resources

European projects

NLP in the global information and knowledge society

NLP in Europe

Production and "intelligent" use of the digital content (also multimedia)

Future perspectives

The promotion of national languages in the global society and the new Internet generation

 

FORENSIC LINGUISTICS

Forensic Linguistic

What is forensic linguistics?

Legal Cases and Proceedings

The investigative stage

The trial stage

The appeal stage

Private disputes

History and Development of Forensic Linguistics to the Present

Forensic Phonetics

Summary of the Development of Forensic Linguistics

Forensic Linguistic in the Justice System

 

MASS MEDIA AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION

Communication and Development

Modernization

Challenges to Modernization

International News and Entertainment Programming

The Cultural Environment Perspective

Telecommunication for Development

Knowledge Societies

Electronic Media and Open and Distance Education

Challenges for Media Use in Open and Distance Learning

 

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND THE PLURAL VISION OF DISCOURSE

Aesthetic Historicism, French Influence Study, and American Parallelism

The Discourse of Triumph and of Crisis

A Global Perspective and Plural Vision

 

THE NOTION OF COMPARING AND THE MEETING OF FRAGMENTS

The One and the Many

The Ages of the Verbal Arts

The Three Ages

Classics and Classicizing

Unity and Fragmentation

Toward a Semiotics of Number

One, Two, Three

Questions to Ponder

 

HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES OF LITERATURE

The concept of literature

Oral literature

Literature in ancient civilizations with writing

Literature in classical literary cultures I: China

Literature in classical literary cultures II: India, Europe, Arabic culture

Changes in European societies and literatures around 1800

Modern literary culture: from around 1800 to the present

Literature: its mode of operation and its value