UNESCO Without Borders: Educational Campaigns for International Understanding

ISBN-13: 9780815364504 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 296 str.

Opis

Based on archive-based empirical and historical research, this book takes a close look at past developments in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s educational policies and practices, with a particular focus on history teaching, in order to offer a new research trajectory for understanding the roles played by UNESCO and other international organizations and the effects of globalization on education.

Spis treści

Part I – Introductory Framework  1. The Nature and Methodology of UNESCO’s Educational Campaigns for International Understanding  2. Textbook Revision Programme: history, concepts, and assumptions  Part II – Campaigns for International Understanding and Peace: UNESCO’s challenges and opportunities  3. Battling Minds: conservatives, progressives, and UNESCO in postwar United States  4. UNESCO’s Reeducation Activities in Postwar Japan and Germany: changing minds and shifting attitudes towards peace and international understanding  5. The Role of Science Education in the Nuclear Age: UNESCO’s promotion of "Atoms for Peace" in 1946–1968  6. UNESCO’s Education for Living in a World Community: from teacher seminars to experimental activities, 1947–1963  7. Advancing International Understanding in Africa: UNESCO and the history of education in Rwanda  Part III – UNESCO and the Politics of History Education: local and global discourses  8. History at the Intersection of Human Rights, International Understanding, and Past Memories: UNESCO and textbook revisions in Belgium, 1944–1956  9. Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexico, and the Struggle over International Understanding and History Writing: the UNESCO experience  10. UNESCO and "Better History Textbooks": reflections on public discourse and policy-making in postwar Japan  11. The Historical Confluence of Education for International Understanding and Textbook Revisions in Brazil, 1945–1960  Part IV – UNESCO’s Experiments with Race, Science, and Antiracism  12. Perturbed by "Race": antiracism, science, and education in UNESCO during the global Cold War  13. South Africa’s "Strange" Relations with UNESCO: antiracism versus apartheid  Part V – UNESCO and International Understanding in a Divided World  14. Debating International Understanding in the Western World: UNESCO and the United States, 1946–1954  15. Debating International Understanding in the Eastern World: UNESCO and the Soviet Union  Conclusion