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Constructing a "Scientific Manpower Crisis": Science Education and the Ford Foundation in Cold War Turkey
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M. Alper Yalçinkaya – History of Education, 2024
In the early 1960s, the Ford Foundation funded numerous projects in Turkey, primarily concerning science education and science policy. Related to the post-Sputnik debates on "scientific manpower needs," and modernisation theory's emphasis on "industrialising elites" in the developing world, these projects were the products of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Philanthropic Foundations, Scientists