Global Declaration
This Declaration is the result of the international initiative ‘Human Education in the 3rd Millennium’, which was launched by thinkers and educationists from across the world who are concerned at certain trends in educational policies and systems. In 2019, a round table conference was held in Dharamsala, India with the participation of the Dalai Lama, following which the book Humanising Education in the 3rd Millennium was published by Springer in 2022. Drawing on the thinking of participants and the main theses of the conference, the international drafting committee compiled a draft Declaration. The draft was examined in a series of regional round tables in 2021-2023 in Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, Latin America and Oceania, which enabled the extended drafting committee comprising members from all over the world to finalize the text.
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Endorsements
The Drafting Committee
The Drafting committee was constituted in the year 2020, and their responsibility was to draft the Declaration that documents the revised aims of education that ought to be taken up by all nations.
Members
Enrique Martínez Larrechea
Professor, Rector of Instituto Universitario Sudamericano,. Montevideo,
Uruguay
Felix Maringe
Professor of Higher Education in the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand,
South Africa
John A Weaver
Dr., Professor at Georgia Southern University’s College of Education, Department of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading. Statesboro,
USA
Kathleen Lynch
Professor Emeritus of Equality Studies, University College Dublin, the founder of the “School of Social Justice”in. UCD. Dublin,
Ireland
Margarita Kozhevnikova,
D.Phil, Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education, Coordinator of the “Human Education in the 3rd Millennium” initiative,
St. Petersburg, Russia
Poonam Batra
Professor of Education at Department of Education, University of Delhi,
India
R. Scott Webster
Associate Professor of Education at Deakin University’s School of Education, coordinator for the ‘Curriculum, Pedagogy and Professional Learning’ teaching and research group, School of Education
Melbourne, Australia
Rajashree Srinivasan
Professor of education at the School of Education, Azim Premji University.
Bangalore, India
Ronald Barnett
Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Education, University of London, Former Dean of Professional Development and Pro-Director for Longer Term Strategy); the inaugural recipient of the EAIR Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Higher Education Research, Policy and Practice’.
London, UK
Timo Airaksinen
Emeritus Professor (Ethics and Social Philosophy), University of Helsinki, Finland. Life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and Vice-President of the Philosophical Society of Finland. Life Honorary Member of the Learned Society of Praxiology.
Helsinki, Finland
Walter Kohan
Professor of Philosophy of Education at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Was previously President of the International Council of Philosophical Inquiry with Children (ICPIC)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Yirga Gelaw
Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University’s Centre for Human Rights Education, multidisciplinary researcher and writer. Coordinator of the Oceania Round Table, Perth,
Australia
Yusef, Waghid
Distinguished professor of philosophy of education, Head of Department of Education Policy Studies, Stellenbosch University. Principal editor of Citizenship Teaching and learning and editor-in- chief of South African Journal of Higher Education. Stellenbosch,