The Council for Education in World Citizenship (CEWC) was an

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that was founded in England in 1939.Gordon, Professor Peter; Gordon, Peter; Lawton, Professor Denis.
Dictionary of British Education
'. Routledge; 2003-04-01 ited 9 March 2013 . p. 52. It operated a number of "regional councils", which later became independent charities, in Wales (CEWC-Cymru) and Northern Ireland (CEWC Northern Ireland). By 2014, the charities in England and Northern Ireland were no longer operating, and the Welsh organisation had been merged into the

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History

The Council for Education in World Citizenship (CEWC) was founded in 1939, "in the shadow of the Second World War, by educationists determined to keep international ideals alive and to encourage schoolchildren to study world problems." It was established by the education committee of the

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(LNU), and continued to work with the LNU's successor, the UK United Nations Association (UNA). It was involved in

global citizenship education Global citizenship education (GCED) is a form of civic learning that involves students' active participation in projects that address global issues of a social, political, economic, or environmental nature. The two main elements of GCE are ' glob ...

. The original chairperson of the CEWC was the academic

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(1866–1957). The CEWC operated "regional councils", which later became independent entities, in Northern Ireland (as CEWC Northern Ireland) and in Wales (as CEWC-Cymru). CEWC-Cymru, which was based at the

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and had operated independent of the English organisation since at least the 1940s, merged with the

in 2014 and ceased to be a separate charity. While CEWC Northern Ireland obtained separate charitable status in 2001, and was in receipt of some funding from

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in 2008, its website was defunct by 2011. The English charity, the Council for Education in World Citizenship, "went into suspension" in April 2001.

References

External links

CEWC (England) website
(archived 2000)
CEWC Northern Ireland website
(archived 2008)
CEWC-Cymru website
(archived 2013) Educational charities based in the United Kingdom 1939 establishments in England 2001 disestablishments in England {{UK-charity-stub