One of the most pressing social problems of the century concerns forcibly displaced populations. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the world is currently experiencing the highest level of population displacements on record. In 2018, the number of refugees worldwide reached 25.9 million, half of whom are under…

The gap between the levels of learning that education systems are providing and what children, communities and economies need, is growing. The breadth and depth of this learning crisis constitute the greatest global challenge to preparing children and adolescents for life, work and active citizenship. The lesson of the learning crisis is clear:…

Between the Inter-governmental Conference on Environmental Education at Tbilisi in 1977 and the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Education at Ahmedabad in 2007, our conception of the challenge posed by the global crises of climate change, environmental destruction, social disintegration, poverty, natural resources exhaustion and…

A UNESCO worker discusses the world education problems being examined and tackled. (LS)

Claims that it is more important today than ever before for Americans to know about the world around them and to think intelligently in global terms. In light of this need, the article recommends that educators concern themselves more with the realities of one world and with education for world citizenship. (DB)

The report reviews obstacles to meeting the needs of disabled and nondisabled children throughout the world. Health, nutrition, and education crises affecting children, especially in developing countries, are reviewed. Practices which promise greater return for each dollar are cited, including using paraprofessionals, building on community…

Cultural immersion programs on a wider scale and in greater variety need to be developed in order for Americans to receive a better understanding of other societies. Institutions for continuing education should provide the right counsel and suitable programs to help Americans to choose the most educational experiences abroad rather than succumb to…

Discusses a foreign policy conference for educators sponsored by the United States Department of State and the need to provide young people with a broad perspective of the world. (IRT)

Of the many serious problems now facing the world, the most important is threat of nuclear destruction. Social studies educators should provide ample classroom time for discussing and examining the facts concerning nuclear warfare, and they must make sure that various points of view are presented. (RM)

Discusses the need for creating conditions more favorable to worldwide accommodations with the accent on ways in which such desirable developments may be fostered. (Author/RK)

Dr. Mead, the world-renowned anthropologist and expert behavioral scientist, is associated with the American Museum of Natural History, which acts as her headquarters as she documents her observations on Man, society and technology. She discusses the need to develop specialists with concern for saving the endangered planet earth. (Editor/GR)

In January, 1972, in three days of plenary sessions and two of workshops, in Denmark, this association proposed various schemes for world education. Participants who felt world education and the world movement for social change must be intricately tied together were few, indicating the program is indeed new. (Author/JB)

Literacy programs are needed by four groups: rural personnel, dropouts and pushouts, neo-literates, and the educated elite. The use of three principles for raising literacy standards for functional literacy programs for each of the groups is discussed, and some program suggestions are offered. (BP)

Social studies educators hold an important key to our future success in the management of "spaceship earth." Students must be made aware of the global environment and the many problems facing it. These problems are discussed. (RM)

Raises questions which must be faced by diplomats in the future and suggests ways of approaching environmental education to produce better informed professionals in international affairs. (SH)