FreshEd #57 - Colonial Entanglements in Comparative Education (Arathi Sriprakash)
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The Geopolitics of Knowledge Production
Modern education systems and practices have had deep connections to colonial projects of control. In the 1950s, the US State Department contracted over 50 universities to work in underdeveloped countries worldwide. Western comparative educationalists operated as experts who legitimized and spread particular ways of knowing the world.
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