28-Oct 2006
The "JOSE VASCONCELOS" World Award of Education has been established as an acknowledgement to those who have the all important labor of teaching, underlying basis for our present civilization.
Marlene Scardamalia has been selected as the recipient of this award for her remarkable contributions in the field of social education, revolutionizing schooling by engaging students more directly and productively in creative work based on knowledge and ideas. In this way, her achievements have focused on the use of new knowledge media, promoting new opportunities of higher education for the general public and the betterment of our societies.
08-Nov 2004
LIEGE, BELGIUM. NOVEMBER 2004. The World Cultural Council presented the 2004 "JOSE VASCONCELOS" World Award of Education to Sir David Attenborough, distinguished British naturalist, filmmaker, television producer and author. The Award Ceremony took place in Liège, Belgium with the host of the University of Liège, on November 8th 2004.
The "JOSE VASCONCELOS" World Award of Education has been established as an acknowledgement to those who have the all important labor of teaching, underlying basis for our present civilization.
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14-Nov
2002
The World Cultural Council presented the 2002 "JOSE
VASCONCELOS" World Award for Education to Prof. Jeannie
Oakes, Presidential Professor in Education and Associate
Dean in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. The Award
Ceremony took place in Dublin, Ireland, with the host being Trinity
College of the University of Dublin.
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1-Nov
2000
Prof. Zafra M. Lerman, Professor of Science and
Public Policy at Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Prof.
Lerman was selected as the recipient of this Award in recognition
of her creative and innovative work in the Science Education
field. Is a Prize offered to Prof. Lerman for her productive
trajectory developing efforts to utilize visual and performing
arts activities in the teaching science and for becoming “a
pioneer in the current renaissance of instruction in science”. Prof.
Lerman´s integration to the sciences and the arts
has encouraged the growing worldwide perception that the arts
have an important role to play in the development of basic
academic skills.
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19-Nov
1998
The productive efforts in creating, implementing
and disseminating educational programs and instructional
strategies has seek to increase teachers confidence to
teach science, to improve teachers understanding of the
nature of science, and to prepare science teacher as leaders
who can effect science education reform. These achievements
takes Prof. Robert Yager to be selected as the winner
of the “José Vasconcelos” World Award
of Education.
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23-Nov
1996
The World Cultural Council granted the “José Vasconcelos” World
Award of Education to Prof. Roger Gaudry for
his more than 55 years of work and his outstanding
contribution to Higher Education, with a significant
influence in the advancement of University life.
He established academic models that transformed
the authority structure of the University and allowed
democratic modes of operation.
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19-Sep
1994
Prof. Joseph O´Halloran the creator of the
Australian mathematics Competition, now the largest in the
world, received the “ José Vasconcelos” World
Award of Education. His initiatives have enhanced the acceptance
in educational circles of mathematical challenges and competitions
in stimulating the learning of school mathematics.
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1992
Professor of Educational and Art at Stanford University, Prof.
Elliot Eisner was the recipient of the “ José Vasconcelos” World
Award of Education in particular for his contribution in
the formulation of educational policy to better understand
the potential of the arts in the educational development of
the young. The Award Ceremony was celebrated at the Lester
B. Pearson Building in Ottawa, Canada with the host of the
National Research Council of Canada.
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22-Nov1990
The World Cultural Council granted the “José
Vasconcelos” World Award of Education to Prof. Lev
Shevrin in recognition of his more than 30 years of fruitful
pedagogical and other educational work, particularly his literary
work in the field of children’s mathematical education.
The three remarkable books which Prof. Shevrin has co-authored.
I. “Geometry for small children” II. “Mathematical
ABC” III. “Mathematical 5-6 textbook Interlocutor”,
are widely popular not only in Russia but also in many other
countries. Total edition has surpassed one million copies
The
Award Ceremony took place at the Polytechnic Institute of Technology
in Zurich, Switzerland.
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19-Nov
1988
The “José Vasconcelos” World
Award of Education was delivered to Prof.
Gilbert De Landsheere in recognition to his
40 year fight to upgrade teacher education for
all levels of instruction. His continuous effort
to develop European empirical education research
in order to influence the whole art of teaching
is also quite notable.
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21-Nov
1985
The “José Vasconcelos” World
Award of Education was granted to Dr. Dolores Hernández,
a pioneer in science and mathematics education in the Philippines,
for her more than 20 years dedication to the improvement
of education in her country. As Director of the University
of the Philippines Institute of Science and Mathematics
Education Development she has played a significant role
in the development of instructional materials and in the
re-training of teachers for this purpose.
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