Towards a Global Community - Educating for Tomorrow's World

This book is the outcome of a global study undertaken on behalf of the World Education Fellowship (WEF) in collaboration with UNESCO. It begins with an analysis of the views of leading thinkers from 36 countries about the type of global community needed to ensure a peaceful and sustainable future, and the attributes that education programs need to develop in learners to develop their unique potentials and to be responsible members of a "diverse and restless global community." The second part the book focuses on the curriculum and pedagogical implications of the WEF study, including basic education, education for sustainable development, values education, conflict resolution and peace, and educating world citizens.

List of contents

I.- TRANSNATIONAL VISIONS OF DESIRABLE FUTURES.- TRANSNATIONAL JUDGEMENTS OF REQUIRED HUMAN ATTRIBUTES.- II.- BASIC EDUCATION FOR ALL.- EDUCATING TO MEET DEVELOPMENTAL NEEDS.- INTRODUCING 'THE RIGHT TO FOOD AND A SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT' INTO A CURRICULUM.- EDUCATING FOR CAPABILITY FOR INCLUSIVE WELL-BEING.- A SOCIAL JUSTICE STUDY: BRAZIL.- EDUCATING FOR CARING AND HUMANE CONNECTIONS.- EDUCATING FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND PEACE.- CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN A TROUBLED REGION: DEVELOPING INDIVIDUALS FOR INTERACTION.- EDUCATING WORLD CITIZENS: A CURRICULUM FOR CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION.- EDUCATING FOR CITIZENSHIP IN A GLOBAL COMMUNITY: WORLD KIDS, WORLD CITIZENS AND GLOBAL EDUCATION.

Summary

This book is the outcome of a global study undertaken on behalf of the World Education Fellowship (WEF) in collaboration with UNESCO. It provides education policy makers with evidence to support programs that address the major challenges faced by education systems in the next decade. It contains case studies, and it expands on the work done by UNESCO’s International Commission on Education for the 21st Century (the Delors Report).

Product details

• Assisted by: Nic Baikaloff (Editor), Nicholas Baikaloff (Editor), Nick Baikaloff (Editor), Jack Campbell (Editor), William J. Campbell (Editor), Colin Power (Editor), Conor Power (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.06.2006
• EAN: 9781402039607
• ISBN: 978-1-4020-3960-7
• No. of pages: 218
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 16 mm x 297 mm
• Weight: 794 g
• Illustrations: XII, 218 p.
• Series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region; Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects; Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects; Education in the Asia-Pacific; Education in the Asia-Pacific Region
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education; Asien, State, B, Bildungswesen: Organisation und Verwaltung, Education, Culture, Development, Well-Being, Sustainable Development, Curriculum, Conflict, Education, general, Social Justice, Quality, Education Policy, Conflict Resolution