Session Information
17 SES 14, Challenging Democracy Education as a Political Tool in the Conflict between Democracy and Totalitarianism, 1900-2000
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Contribution
In 1953 Unesco initiated a project called Co-ordinated experimental activities in education for living in a world community. In 2013 the project, since 1963 named The UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet), is celebrating its 60th anniversary. The 1953 project was designed to spread UN and Unesco ideas concerning topics as democracy and international understanding, and to gather comparable results on how and whether democracy and international understanding could be taught. Plans for rebuilding of the European school system after WWII had existed before the war ended, and Unesco had some of the responsibility of such work after its establishment in 1946. The work with Co-ordinated experimental activities in education for living in a world community was a developed these plans further. In this paper I will present some results from my research into the first ten years of the project. Unesco definitely used the school system as a tool to spread ideas on how to live in a world community; but how conscious was their use of the schools? How did they use their results? And how far did they reach, outside a few participating schools from a selected number of countries?
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