1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557644003321

Autore

Gibson Heidi (Educator)

Titolo

From ideas to action : transforming learning to inspire action on critical global issues / / Heidi Gibson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : Smithsonian Scholarly Press, , 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (77 p.)

Collana

Open Monographs

Disciplina

371.9046

Soggetti

Global method of teaching

Education - Curricula - United States

Science - Study and teaching - United States

Social sciences - Study and teaching - United States

Sustainable development - International cooperation

Education - Curricula

Science - Study and teaching

Social sciences - Study and teaching

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-72) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Transforming learning from a passive to an active endeavor is critically important in today’s world. In 2015, the United Nations identified seventeen Sustainable Development Goals that represent a global consensus on the world’s most pressing issues. Realizing these ambitious goals will require concerted action at all levels, including local action. Young people are valuable components of this, and their learning experiences should both inform and inspire them as current and future changemakers. From Ideas to Action articulates the theoretical basis of Smithsonian Science for Global Goals, a series of socio-scientific community research guides focused on achieving a systemic understanding of global problems with the goal of inspiring young people to take informed and sustained action to help address



global issues.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813876703321

Autore

Morrissey Suzanne

Titolo

Motherhood, poverty, and the WIC program in urban America : life strategies / / Suzanne Morrissey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-7391-8934-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Disciplina

363.8830973

Soggetti

Maternal and infant welfare - Government policy - United States

Food relief - United States - Cost control

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover-Page; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Sick Cities: Poverty and Infant Mortality in Central New York; 2 Imperatives and Impacts of the Federal WIC Program; 3 Methodological Persuasions: Solving Public Health Problems When "Problem" Holds Multiple Meanings; 4 Inside WIC: Bureaucracy, Barriers, and Provider Values; 5 Strategizing Motherhood and Public Health in Urban America; 6 Metaphorical Thought and the Construction of WIC Frames of Reference; 7 Hidden Rationalities; Appendices; Bibliography; Index

About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

This urban ethnography examines the relationship between urban residence and endemic poverty and health inequalities, particularly racial disparities in infant mortality in the United States. Starting from the everyday lives of women struggling to make ends meet, it represents an institutional ethnography of the WIC Program that identifies and explores how bureaucratic rigidity and hierarchy relate to personal decision-making in a context of pregnancy, parenting, and



poverty.