UNESCOCWRU GENIe GlobalProblematique Education Network Initiative

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UNESCO/CWRU GENIe(Global-Problematique Education
Network Initiative)
Teaching Tools for Global Issues Sustainable
Development

• GENIe Coordinating Center
• Co-Directors Mihajlo D. Mesarovic Sree N.
  Sreenath
• nxs6_at_po.cwru.edu
• Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio,
  USA
• Carolyn Staudt, Concord Consortium, Concord, USA

Europe-Africa GENIe Office Co-Director Josep
Xercavins UPC, Barcelona
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GLOBESIGHT
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Objectives of GENIe

• Immediate
• Pilot global issues and sustainable development
  education at the high school level based on
  developed methodology
• Virtual Global Classrooms
• Long-term
• Establishment of national and regional virtual
  classrooms
• Educating decisionmakerspresent and future and
  the public-at-large on how to reduce the gap
  between the science and policy domains.
• Research on how to pursue bridging the gap and
  educational efforts.

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International Organization Cooperation

• UNESCO
• Green Cross, Geneva, Switzerland
• GENIe Europe/Africa Coordinating Center,
  Barcelona, Spain
• World Water Council
• Senior Board of the Social Science Council

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GENIe - University Network

• Argentina Univ. Rosario
• Botswana Botswana Univ.
• Brazil Candido Mendes Univ.,Rio de Janiero
• China Tshingua Univ., Bejing
• Equador Univ. San Francisco
• Germany Trier Univ., Trier
• India Jawaharlal Nehru Univ., New Delhi
• Japan Chiba Inst. of Technology., Chiba
• Mexico UNAM, Mexico City
• Morocco Mohammed V Univ., Rabat
• Nigeria Univ. of Lagos, Lagos
• Portugal European Univ., Lisbon
• Russia St. Petersburg State Univ., St.
  Petersburg
• Spain UPC, Terrassa, Barcelona
• Turkey Bilkent Univ., Ankara
• USA Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, Ohio

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GENIe - High School Network (Under Development)

• Founding Members
• Gilmour Academy, Cleveland, USA
• Hathaway Brown, Cleveland, USA
• Upper Canada College, Toronto, Canada
• St. Marys High, Panama
• Members under consideration
• Secondary Schools associated with GENIe Univ.
  Members

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Support From UNESCO GENIe for Qualifying Pilot
Schools

• Notes on Global Issues and Sustainable
  Development (samples)
• Teacher Training on Future Studies
• Methodology
• Software
• GLOBESIGHT
• Travel Support for GENIe activities/meetings
• Global Virtual Classroom
• Issue based interaction with other GENIe schools
  from around the world

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GENIe Pilot Qualifying Criterion

• 1. School Administration commitment
• Identify High School teacher(s)
• Social Studies and/or Science
• Grades 9-12
• Provide Resources
• Time relief to develop course for Teachers
• Computer and Internet access (e-mail/WWW)
• 2. Teacher(s) use methodology and materials
  (notes and GLOBESIGHT software) in selected
  course
• Significant part of existing course or a separate
  course
• 3. Schools provide feedback and share ideas and
  any teacher developed material with GENIe

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GENIe Pilot Qual. Criterion 2

• 4. Participate in GENIe activities
• Virtual Classroom exercises with other GENIe high
  schools
• Hanover 2000 (UNESCO booth)
• Dialogue of Youth for 21st Century on
  Sustainable Development
• September 2000
• Annual GENIe Conference (Europe/USA)

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GENIe High School Pilot Timeline

• 1. Contact GENIe by e-mail for application form
• Return application
• Selected schools will be informed
• 2. Teachers in selected school choose one or
  more GENIe selected issues to study
  sustainability
• population, health, climate change or water
  resource sustainability
• Teaching material and references provided
• 3. Have students develop detailed issue based
  essays
• 20-25 pages (double spaced, 12 pt font)

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GENIe High School Pilot Timeline

• 4. Teacher chooses 2 best student essays and
  sends to GENIe for qualification
• 5. One Teacher and one student from qualified
  schools will be invited to Cleveland, Ohio, USA
  for a 5 day GENIe Retreat Training
• All local expenses covered
• Travel grants available for a small number of
  schools
• 6. Preparation and planning for Expo 2000 at
  Hanover (September 2000) during retreat
• 7. GENIe Annual meeting December 2000 in
  Europe/USA

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APPROACH
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Basic Principles of Future Studies

• Scientific Integrity
• Model only if scientific data and scientific
  knowledge is available. Do not model what is
  not modelable.
• Transparency
• Reduced form models for decisonmaking, education
  and the public domain.
• Focus on Problematique Integrated assessment.
• Participatory Symbiotic Reasoning Process
• Interactive assessment human inside models.

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GLOBESIGHT Architecture
Information Base
Models Base
ANALYSIS SUPPORT SYSTEM
Functionalities Base
Issues Base
Human
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GLOBESIGHT INFORMATION BASE

• Dimension
• 196 Countries
• 21 Regions
• 5 Continents
• Data Source
• UN, World Bank, World Resources Inst., World
  Watch Inst., Journals, CIA World Fact Book,
  Reports, etc.

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GLOBESIGHT MODELS/ISSUES BASE
LEVELS
Carrying Capacity
Integrated Development
Climate Change
Sustainable Development
A. Water Stress Scarcity, Global B. Water
Stress Scarity, Regional/National
C. Maximal Food Production Model D. Food
Data-base/Model
K. Oil Reserves, Ultimate Recovery, Global L. Oil
Reserves, Ultimate Recovery, Regional
M. Energy, Total Primary N. Energy, Mix
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Challenges for Development Policies in the 21st
Century
Complexity
Uncertainty
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Thanks To...

• UNESCO
• David Lucille Packard Foundation

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