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Éste es un fragmento del "Documento de política para el cambio y el desarrollo en la educación superior", elaborado por la UNESCO.

Half the world's children live in cities and the proportion is growing. Their environment critically determines their futures and the world they will make as adults. This text, by an interdisciplinary team of international child-environment authorities, explores how crucial the relationship of the young and their surroundings is. Covering eight countries, it shows the enormous benefits - for them, for the wider society and for the future - of involving children, especially from underprivileged communities, in planning and implementing urban improvements. It continues and updates Kevin Leech's pioneering 1970s MIT project, Growing Up in Cities.

Western and Arab researchers look at adult education, and discuss how an ecological approach to education, focussing on the cultural traditions and natural environments of communities, can be more useful than education in specialized institutions.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Contributors -- PART I THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN RIGHTS -- 1 International Human Rights in an Historical Perspective -- Introduction -- Historical Antecedents -- The General Rule -- Special Rules and Regimes -- Modern International Human Rights Law -- The Normative Foundation -- Institution Building -- Implementation and the Post-Cold War World -- Individual Responsibility, Minority Rights and Collective Humanitarian Intervention -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 The Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights -- Introduction -- The Nature of Human Rights -- Sources of Human Rights -- Religion -- Natural Law: the Autonomous Individual -- Positivism: the Authority of the State -- Marxism: Man as a Specie Being -- The Sociological Approach: Process and Interests -- Modern Human Rights Theories -- Rights Based on Natural Rights: Core Rights -- Rights Based on the Value of Utility -- Rights Based on Justice -- Rights Based on Reaction to Injustice -- Rights Based on Dignity -- Rights Based on Equality of Respect and Concern -- Theory Based on Cultural Relativism (versus Universalism) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART II CIVIL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS -- 3 Civil and Political Rights -- Introduction -- Recognition of Civil and Political Rights -- Obligations of States -- The Right to Life -- Prohibition of Torture -- Prohibition of Slavery -- Liberty and Security of the Person -- Procedural Guarantees in Civil and Criminal Trials -- Freedom of Movement and Protection against Arbitrary Expulsion -- Right to Privacy, Marriage, Family Life and Rights of Children -- Political Freedoms -- Political Rights -- Equality and Non-discrimination -- Other Rights -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Economic and Social Rights

This book presents many of the papers that were delivered at a workshop on Universities, Colleges, and Others: Diversity of Structures for Higher Education, held at CEPES in 1993 in Bucharest, Romania. Among the compiled themes are as follows: 1) History, Geography, and Economy: Elemental Influences on Higher Education Policy Decisions; 2) Policy Goals for the Future; 3) Legal Construction of Higher Education Structures; and 4) Managing Change. ; UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education

There is a growing importance of student counselling and orientation in higher education. Although both have always been part of the university environment, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States, they have been moving closer to a center stage in recent years as a result of the massification of higher education, its diversification and growing complexity, and the increasing types and intensity of pressure being placed on students regarding both their studies and the difficulties that very many of them anticipate in finding suitable employment upon graduation. At the very least, academic counsellors will help students deal successfully with these pressures while making the best possible choices regarding their studies and their future careers. This book compiles a set of papers in this regard. ; UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education

During the 1980s, most European countries underwent substantial changes in their economic and educational systems. During the period it became clear that the discussions were going to be centered around the rapid changes being experienced by the higher education systems in practically all the countries of the region in their attempts to adapt themselves to new socio-economic conditions. In particular, much stress was given to the need to arrive at a clearer understanding of the diversification processes which were currently taking place in various higher education systems and of the combinations of factors which lead to such diversification. This book aims to discuss the features, the causes, and the national experiences of the ongoing processes of adaptation of higher education to changing societal needs and diversification of processes that were exerting similar influences on different national systems of higher education in European countries. ; UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education

This volume, edited by Linda King, brings together contributions on indigenous knowledge, the cultural context of learning and the interplay between so-called `traditional' and `modern' forms of education. Various different communities and cultures are examined, ranging from Egypt to Benin, and from central Brazil to New Caledonia. The contributions bear witness to the extraordinary diversity and richness of educational approaches found in these communities. At the same time, the approach of this volume is to emphasize not so much the exotic nature of otherness and difference, but rather the sense of common humanity which all cultures share with one another and which can lead us to appreciate the universal joy of learning