Description
Book Synopsis Looking back at the last century with its devastating wars, genocides, environmental disasters, more often than not caused by humans, an urgent need for a paradigmatic shift in human relationships suggests itself. Other factors point in the same direction, such as movement towards globalization, reflected in greater fragmentation of society, of growing migration of persons across state boundaries, resulting in ethnic clashes of culture and competing claims over territories. This means that greater social cohesion is needed while at the same time a heightened awareness of difference and mutual respect has to be fostered.
It is widely accepted that education is a crucial agency in developing a new awareness of "the self" and "the other" - education at the formal, informal and non-formal level. The essays in this collection reflect on the possibilities of a "common future" and on educational programs and projects that are aimed at transforming the vision of a more humane world into reality.
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Table of Contents Preface
Introduction
J. Campbell
Chapter 1. UNESCO's Response to the Challenge of Establishing Unity in Diversity
C.N. Power
Chapter 2. A Working Consensus on a Desirable Future: An Australian Case-Study
J. Campbell, M.M. McMeniman and N. Baikaloff
Chapter 3. Nurturing the Human Spirit
W.N. Oats
Chapter 4. Educating for Moral Responsibility
B.V. Hill
Chapter 5. Educating for Unity through Diversity of Knowing: A Systemic Perspective
R.J. Bawden
Chapter 6. Educating for a Humane Society
E.M. Campbell
Chapter 7. Educating for a Sustainable Future
J. Fien
Chapter 8. A Weaving of Threads: The Warp and the Weft of the WEF Project
B. Keepes and J.M. Maling
Bibliography
Index
