ART EDUCATION AND THE PROMOTION OF INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDING.

This article presents an analysis on art education in relation to the promotion of intercultural understanding. It discusses that arts are universal, ethnocentric, and culture-bound and learning about art can be conceived as one way to promote intercultural understanding. It also offers information regarding the International Baccalaureate, a program for the final two years of secondary school requiring all students to follow a course in the theory of knowledge and operating in sixty-five countries.