From John Steers 'InSEA: Past, Present and Future':
"InSEA, like its parent organisation the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), was founded in the aftermath of the 1939-1945 World War. Richard Hoggart explains how UNESCO was conceived in a spirit of hope, in a heady confidence that a new style of international relations could be developed:
The world had just come through a terrible and protracted war, one initiated by
false philosophies working on ignorance through massive control of free speech.
The impulse, in 1945, to try to ensure that it did not happen again, and that
people should understand each other better through education and all forms of
cultural and scientific exchanges, the passionate emphasis on truth, justice,
peace and the importance of the individual – these impulses were irresistible.
At UNESCO’s first and second general conferences, held in 1946 and 1947, resolutions were adopted to inquire into art education. In 1948, Dr Herbert Read from the United Kingdom was appointed as chairman of a ‘Committee of Experts’ to look into this matter. This small group comprised Thomas Munro from the USA; the Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly; two government education inspectors, Georges Favre from France and Edward O’R Dickey from the United Kingdom; a professor of philosophy from the Sorbonne, M Bayer; two aestheticians, Professors Souriau and Lalo; and Mme Langevin, an art teacher from France.
From these beginnings followed the UNESCO seminar on ‘The Visual Arts in General Education’, held from 7-27 July 1951 at the University of Bristol, England, at which some twenty countries were represented. The delegates included a significant number of people who continued to take leadership roles in InSEA as the organisation developed."
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From John Steers 'InSEA:…
From John Steers 'InSEA: Past, Present and Future':
"InSEA, like its parent organisation the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), was founded in the aftermath of the 1939-1945 World War. Richard Hoggart explains how UNESCO was conceived in a spirit of hope, in a heady confidence that a new style of international relations could be developed:
The world had just come through a terrible and protracted war, one initiated by
false philosophies working on ignorance through massive control of free speech.
The impulse, in 1945, to try to ensure that it did not happen again, and that
people should understand each other better through education and all forms of
cultural and scientific exchanges, the passionate emphasis on truth, justice,
peace and the importance of the individual – these impulses were irresistible.
At UNESCO’s first and second general conferences, held in 1946 and 1947, resolutions were adopted to inquire into art education. In 1948, Dr Herbert Read from the United Kingdom was appointed as chairman of a ‘Committee of Experts’ to look into this matter. This small group comprised Thomas Munro from the USA; the Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly; two government education inspectors, Georges Favre from France and Edward O’R Dickey from the United Kingdom; a professor of philosophy from the Sorbonne, M Bayer; two aestheticians, Professors Souriau and Lalo; and Mme Langevin, an art teacher from France.
From these beginnings followed the UNESCO seminar on ‘The Visual Arts in General Education’, held from 7-27 July 1951 at the University of Bristol, England, at which some twenty countries were represented. The delegates included a significant number of people who continued to take leadership roles in InSEA as the organisation developed."