ED/BIE/CONFINTED 46/3
Geneva, 29 June 2001
Original: French

UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION

Forty-sixth session
International Conference Centre, Geneva
5 - 8 September 2001

EDUCATION FOR ALL FOR LEARNING TO LIVE TOGETHER:
CONTENTS AND LEARNING STRATEGIES - PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

This document is a starting point whose priority aim is to “pioneer” the work of the International Conference on Education. It particularly strives to take on board what has already been achieved and the need to take further steps within a process of dialogue, commitment and action by national and international actors whose three fundamental references are: the Dakar Forum Action Plan, the Report of the International Commission on Education for the Twenty-First Century and the Jomtien World Conference on Education for All. It is therefore in a spirit of an exchange of information, dialogue, debate, expressions of opinion (even controversial) and enrichment of thinking that the reader is invited to take this reference document

SUMMARY

 

INTRODUCTION

I.TOWARDS A CONCEPT OF LEARNING TO LIVE TOGETHER

II. BASIC LEARNING NEEDS FOR LIVING TOGETHER IN THE FACE OF GLOBALIZATION

1. Learning needs for living together and social participation
   • From the emergence of democratic government to a renewed citizenship
   • Possibilities and limits of learning for social cohesion in the face of wars, violence and inequality
   • Learning to live together in the face of tension between belonging to a “world culture” and supporting cultural diversity
2. Quality education for all and participating in the knowledge society to bring about a learning society
   • The question of languages: a strategic dimension to learning to live together
   • The question of sciences: a paradigmatic case of permanent reconstruction
   • The growth of information and communication technologies: possibilities and limits

III. EDUCATIONAL RESPONSES TO BASIC LEARNING NEEDS FOR LIVING TOGETHER IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

1. Quantitative advances in learning to live together
2. Acknowledging the challenge of improving the quality of education for learning to live together
3. Towards a new curriculum design
4. Rethinking curricula together in order to learn to live together: promoting participation in curricular decisions
5. Proposals for learning to live together in the new curricula
6. Progress and obstacles in school life for learning to live together

IV. HOW TO MOVE FORWARD IN LEARNING MORES SUCCESSFULLY TO LIVE TOGETHER: SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR BROADENING THE DIALOGUE

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