We are part of a globalized world that is reflected in problems associated with the development of the various dimensions of human endeavor. Intellectuals and scientists, who explain the complexity of the 21st century, emphasized on the fact that human beings swing between a strong consumer tendency and the capture of immediacy. There is a need…

The author summarizes some of Piaget's beliefs, and states that the curriculum in today's schools must be changed in order to put into practice some of these beliefs, and to prepare students to reason together and work cooperatively to solve common world problems. (KC)

There is in the higher education profession a strong and growing segment who believe that although our colleges may be successful in producing well-informed and skilled specialists they do not turn out citizens broadly informed about the complex world in which they live. Consequently, as a people we are unable to cope with our personal and civic…

Offers a trenchant critique of Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg, both of whom claimed to identify stages in moral development that are "universal, culturally invariant, and nonregressive." Explains some inadequacies in these theories, which have become so influential in education, and offers suggestions for further investigation. (MJP)

Building a strategic direction for education ultimately rests on the extent, to which we resolve the key issue addressed by UNESCO's International Commission on Education for the 21st Century (the Delors Report): what kind of education is needed to create the kind of world, we want to emerge in the future? Certainly, globalisation brings with it…