A four-day meeting of sociologists and educators from eight countries to work out means of fighting racial prejudice among children and adolescents opened here under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The educators and sociologists come from the United States, Britain, France, Canada, West Germany, Mexico, Poland and India.
UNESCO’s social science department has made available to the conferees a number of documents and several manuals meant to help them in their work. The manuals include. “Teaching Relative to the Racial Question” by Cyril Bibby of London University, and “How to Learn to Live Without Hate,” by Charles Hendry of Toronto University.
At the invitation of UNESCO, the World Jewish Congress presented to the conferees a detailed working paper on the handling of anti-Jewish bias in the schools, Mr. A. Klausner, the WJC representative, stressed the unique characteristics of anti-Jewish prejudice.
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