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| Comparative Education Review | 2 |
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| Altbach, Philip G. | 1 |
| Mundy, Karen | 1 |
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| Journal Articles | 2 |
| Historical Materials | 1 |
| Information Analyses | 1 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
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Peer reviewedAltbach, Philip G. – Comparative Education Review, 1986
Introduces participants of a symposium on current controversies concerning UNESCO. Discusses contributions of UNESCO to the fields of comparative and international education and American government objections related to the large UNESCO bureaucracy and the political and ideological underpinnings of some UNESCO activities. (SV)
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Comparative Education, Foreign Policy, Ideology
Peer reviewedMundy, Karen – Comparative Education Review, 1998
Explores the social foundations and contradictions of formal multilateralism in education since 1945. Discusses the emergence of UNESCO in the 1950s-60s as mediator between developing and donor nations, construction of an ideology linking educational and economic development, the rise of "basic needs" programming in the 1970s, and the…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Educational Development, Financial Support, Ideology
