1st Edition

Constructing Education for Development International Organizations and Education for All

By Colette Chabbott Copyright 2003
    214 Pages
    by Routledge

    214 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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;

    Biography

    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.