ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the contradictions in three areas: international politics, human rights and the world economic system, and global ecology. Family education includes transmission of the values, such as the equality and dignity of people that people have associated with the ideal of Global Citizenship. Contradictions between institutional reality and hidden ideals are to be found behind the uncertainties and ambivalence regarding the nature of Global Citizenship. The ideal of Global Citizenship is related to two trends in recent history. One could be called globalization and the other particularization. The devastation caused by the Second World War led the members of the anti-fascist coalition to set up the United Nations with the main purpose of preserving international peace and security. In response to the inequalities of the world economic system, the children in many wealthy countries are educated for solidarity: to help the hungry and support the inhabitants of poor countries.
