ABSTRACT
The concept of international awareness is as ambiguous as that of curriculum change. The problem of not involving teachers in curriculum change is also echoed by educators in the industrialised countries. If 'Curriculum change' is as many an educator would claim 'people change’, where does the responsibility of changing the curriculum for international awareness lie and with whom? International Awareness: a neglected factor in curriculum change. One major omission in most of the literature on curriculum theory and practice in both the 'developed' and 'developing' countries is the international dimension of education. Implicit in this is the hope that education can help the younger generation to develop the competence to reconcile the tensions or conflicts which are likely to arise because of their national and global loyalties. The reduction if not the elimination of "institutionalised racism" and ethnocentricism at either national or personal levels is one of the greatest educational imperatives of our 21st century.
