I think that whether we like it or, not, the stage is now
being set for the third world war. I think I an not the only one
who believes this.
If it happens, the third world war will have resulted from
individual and tribal greed over the earth's diminishing resources
and it will have been aided by breakdowns in understanding between
people and tribes.
Perhaps people of different nations and races and cultures
don't know enough about each other and perhaps if they did they
might find out how to accommodate to each other perhaps there are
ways in which they can find out. Perhaps education is one of the
possible means.
This study takes a look at a unique approach to the hope
that education is a force which can be used to unite nations and
races. Since there is as yet no instrument designed to measure
whether a person educated internationally is or is not contributing
to world peace, it is necessarily descriptive.
The work starts with a review of developments in international
education and moves to a consideration of what this mode of
education is. It then deals with the only known vehicle of international
education operating at the secondary level, the International
Baccalaureate. The study then gives an account of the early
efforts of those who founded Atlantic College. It moves to a description
of the international organization set up by Lord Mountbatten
to co-ordinate the efforts of all those around the world who
are persuaded that education can help prevent war. Cameos of the
three existing United World Colleges follow. They are: the United
World College of the Atlantic; the Leste 3. Pearson College of
the Pacific; the United World College of South East Asia. Finally,
the paper considers the question of the proliferation of United
World Colleges, examines some of the project's problems and concludes
with a few guesses at what might happen in the future.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/219511 |
| Date | January 1978 |
| Creators | Shekleton, P. R., n/a |
| Publisher | University of Canberra. Teacher Education |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | ), Copyright P. R. Shekleton |
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