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A Changing Vision of Education
We are educating our young people in an extraordinary time in human history as they grow up in an increasingly interdependent world. News from around the globe is available in an instant; the Internet and mass communications give young people immediate access to ideas and people from all over the world. In addition, multinational corporations spread cultural messages to young people via this rapid form of mass technology. There is, therefore, an increasing awareness among students that a great many issues — the environment, health, the economy, nuclear weapons, international conflict — are intertwined and affect them personally.
The reality of our shrinking planet and its impact on young people has implications for how and what we teach them in school. As educators, we hold in our collective hands the responsibility to help young people become active, caring citizens of the twenty-first century who can understand that the future of their world depends on global cooperation and peace and that the first step to global peace is learning how to resolve conflicts here at home.
How can young people see themselves as part of a larger whole, including not just their neighborhood, community, or country, but the world? How can children learn to make choices that support the individual and collective good and actively engage in making a meaningful difference?
NANCY CARLSSON-PAIGE and LINDA LANTIERI
Carlsson-Paige, N. and Lantieri, L. (2005). A Changing Vision of Education. Reclaiming Children and Youth, 14 (2), pp 97-98
