Council for Education in World Citizenship

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The Council for Education in World Citizenship (CEWC) was an educational charity that was founded in England in 1939. [1] 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 Welsh Centre for International Affairs.

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The Council for Education in World Citizenship was founded in 1939. It was established by the education committee of the League of Nations Union (LNU), [2] [3] and continued to work with the LNU's successor, the UK United Nations Association (UNA). [4] It was involved in global citizenship education. [5] As of 1943, the chairperson of the CEWC was the academic Gilbert Murray (1866–1957). [6]

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 Temple of Peace, Cardiff and had operated independent of the English organisation since at least the 1940s, [7] merged with the Welsh Centre for International Affairs in 2014 and ceased to be a separate charity. [8] While CEWC Northern Ireland obtained separate charitable status in 2001, [9] and was in receipt of some funding from Irish Aid in 2008, [10] its website was defunct by 2011. [11]

The English charity, the Council for Education in World Citizenship, "went into suspension" in April 2001. [12] As of 2024, it was recorded as a "removed charity" by the Charity Commission for England and Wales. [13]

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References

  1. ↑ Gordon, Professor Peter; Gordon, Peter; Lawton, Professor Denis. Dictionary of British Education . Routledge; 2003-04-01 [cited 9 March 2013]. ISBN   9780203485453. p. 52.
  2. ↑ "Education in World Citizenship". Nature (journal) . 145: 676–678. 1940. doi:10.1038/145676a0.
  3. ↑ Wright, Susannah (2018), Creating Liberal-Internationalist World Citizens: League of Nations Union Junior Branches in English Secondary Schools, 1919–1939 (PDF), [the LNU made a] decision to reconstitute the LNU Education Committee from July 1939 as a semi-autonomous body, The Council for Education in World Citizenship
  4. ↑ "Council for Education in World Citizenship, 1941-1959". archives.lse.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 November 2024. The Council [CEWC] was established by the Education Committee of the League of Nations Union and although it was a separate organisation it worked very closely with the UNA after its formation
  5. ↑ "Heritage of Global Learning". wcia.org.uk. Welsh Centre for International Affairs. Retrieved 24 November 2024. highlights from the [WCIA educations] collection include a curriculum for a global citizenship class written by CEWC
  6. ↑ Schnapper, M.B., ed. (1943), Education and the United Nations: A Report of a Joint Commission of the Council for Education in World Citizenship and the London International Assembly, Washington DC: American Council on Public Affairs, The Council for Education in World Citizenship is a British council [..] The Chairman of the Council is Dr. Gilbert Murray, 0.M., formerly Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford
  7. ↑ Heater, Derek Benjamin (1984). Peace through education : the contribution of the Council for Education in World Citizenship. London: Falmer Press. p. 128. ISBN   1850000018. OCLC   10457995. The Principality of Wales had always led at least a partially separate existence from the London-based CEWC. In 1949 a formal agreement was reached with the Welsh Association for Education in World Citizenship [..] Later renamed CEWC-Cymru
  8. ↑ "What we do - Welsh Centre for International Affairs". www.wcia.org.uk. 8 October 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2023. WCIA has its origins in [..] UNA Wales (the United Nations Association, 1946-2014) and CEWC Cymru (the Council for Education in World Citizenship, 1943-2014). [..] The Welsh Centre for International Affairs was launched in 1973 [..] and became a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (No. 1156822, on merger with CEWC Cymru and UNA Wales) in 2014.
  9. ↑ "History Of The Council For Education In World Citizenship In N.Ireland". cewcni.org.uk. Archived from the original on 14 October 2006.
  10. ↑ Parliamentary Debates - Dáil Éireann - Official Report - Unrevised (PDF), 2010, p. 445, 446
  11. ↑ "cewcni.org.uk". Archived from the original on 26 May 2011.
  12. ↑ "Council for Education in World Citizenship". cewc.org.uk. Archived from the original on 27 March 2002. On the 1st April 2001 CEWC in England went into suspension [..] Both CEWC Cymru in Cardiff, and CEWC Northern Ireland in Belfast are independent organisations with their own charitable status and are unaffected by the current situation in England
  13. ↑ "Charity Commission For England And Wales - Register - Council For Education In World Citizenship". charitycommission.gov.uk. Retrieved 22 November 2024. Council For Education In World Citizenship [..] Charity number: 1076073 [..] Removed charity
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