Recent research has advanced the understanding of how global processes have led to standardized ideas about modern schooling. Chabbott provides an insightful examination of how the processes of international development have effected the role of education at a global level since World War II.
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Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Setting the Stage; Chapter 3 Discourse; Chapter 4 International Development as an Organizational Field; Chapter 5 Educational Development Professionals; Chapter 6 Conferences to Universalize Education,1945–1990; Conclusion; Appendix A Protocol for Identifying International Development Organizations; Appendix B Major Postwar International Conferences on Mass Education; References; Index;
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780415874991
Publisert
2009-10-05
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Vekt
650 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
196
Forfatter
Biografisk notat
Colette Chabbott is Director of the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education at the National Academy of Sciences. She has served with the United States Agency for International Development in Bangladesh and Guinea, taught in the International and Comparative Education program at Stanford University, and has consulted for other international organizations in Egypt, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.