Towards a Global Community: Educating for Tomorrow's World: 7 (Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 7) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402039603 ISBN 13: 9781402039607

Publisher: Springer, 2006

Synopsis

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).

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402039603
• ISBN 13: 9781402039607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 230
• Editor: Campbell Jack, Baikaloff Nick, Power Colin