At the same time as pressures mount for the inclusion of intercultural perspec tives in the curriculum, resources for international education are diminishing. Against this backdrop the author develops a test of reasonable opposites to contrast Western and non-Western assumptions about educational objectives. Suggestions are made for increasing the non-formal, informal and individua lized educational opportunities in education as a cost-effective vehicle of inter national and intercultural education in the curricula.
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