Creating Our Common Future: Educating for Unity in Diversity

by Jack Campbell

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781571812803
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	04/01/2001
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

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

Editorial Reviews

“… a healthy challenge to our current priorities… readable and thought-provoking.” • The Friend

From the Publisher

"The overarching theme of this book is that if education is to avoid the risk of condemning itself to irrelevance, it must contribute to ... the achievement of unity while retaining, respecting, valuing and and encouraging diversity." So states Campbell (emeritus, U. of Queensland) in his introduction to nine essays on educating for a sustainable future. Published jointly with UNESCO as part of a World Education Fellowship project. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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