Reflections on the future development of education [antikvár]

Preface Following the twentieth session of the General Conference of Unesco, a prospective study was undertaken on the theme 'Reflections on the Future Development of Education'. Based on an analysis of the major trends in education during the 1970s and of socio-economic changes in the world and the foreseeable progress of science and technology, this study attempts to outline the prospects for education during the last two decades of the century and to identify the priorities for international co-operation in this matter. Specialists from all over the world took part in this important task. Their participation has enabled the Unesco Secretariat to present a wider range of views as regards both the analysis of the trends that have marked the recent past and reflection on the future. This study, then, is based first of all on the work of five symposia held in 1980 in Dakar, Bangkok, Beirut, Caracas and Paris, which gave specialists in various disciplines an opportunity to examine in depth present problems in education at the regional level and possible trends in its future development. Besides this, an International Panel on the Future Development of Education was set up to advise the Secretariat. Comprising eminent people from the fields of education, science and culture, who represented all the regions of the world, this group met for the first time in Paris from 17 to 21 November 1980, in order to identify significant trends in the development of education throughout the world, to determine what factors were likely to influence it in the course of the next twenty years and to decide which of the main themes should be the subject of special studies. The next stage was the preparation, by people of distinction in different countries, of more than twenty thematic studies. At the second meeting of the panel, which took place in Paris from 30 November to 4 December 1981, all that had been done in the matter of reflection on the future of education was reviewed. The participants examined in particular questions such as the material, financial and human resources needed for education; the prospects for interaction between educational policy and cultural policy; the influence of scientific