FreshEd #234 – UNESCO, the World Bank, and Education Development (Maren Elfert)
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The Power Struggle Over Education in Developing Countries
Marin Elfer is a lecturer in education and society at King's College London. She has recently published an article entitled The Power Struggle Over Education in Developing Countries, the case of UNESCO World Bank Cooperative Program, 1964 to 1989.Elfer: At the beginning it was more of an equal partnership, but that changed quite dramatically in the 1970s. I think the story is interesting because we see how the epistemic authority over education shifted from the educators to the economists.
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