Publisher's Synopsis
This is one of a pair of volumes emerging from the UNESCO and European Union-supported Symposium in Budapest to celebrate the International Year of the Family. Thirty participants from twenty countries assembled to consider the topic of Families as Educators for Global Citizenship and papers from the symposium appear in an edited volume of the same title. This book is an extended essay on the impact of globalisation on families, particularly in relation to how families socialize their children to adapt to changes in the world social order. - - The turbulence of contemporary social environments presents families with a crisis in values, along with educators and community leaders families are searching for a 'global ethic' of common values which will unite diverse peoples to create the conditions of peace, justice and sustainable environment which all need and which none can attain without cooperation.
