TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chabbott,Colette
TI  - Constructing education for development: international organizations and education for all 
SN  - 0815338295 :
AV  - LC2607 .C39 2002
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - RoutledgeFalmer
KW  - World Conference on Education for All
KW  - (1990
KW  - Bangkok, Thailand)
KW  - Educational assistance
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Education
KW  - International cooperation
KW  - Fundamental education
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Basic education
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Discourse -- International Development as an Organizational Field -- Educational Development Professionals -- Conferences to Universalize Education, 1945-1990 -- Protocol for Identifying International Development Organizations -- Major Postwar International conferences on Mass Education
N2  - Constructing Education for Development analyzes the role of discourse, organizations, professionalism, and conferences in shaping education for development since World War II. Using the directories and databases of international organizations, proceedings of international conferences, and interviews with more than forty development professionals, this book explores historical trends in development discourse and how these trends are reflected in education policies and projects in less industrialized countries. One key trend, Colette Chabbott argues, is the shift toward individuals -- and away from national economies -- as the main objects of development. In the first two decades after World War II, development planners looked to investment in industry and heavy infrastructure as the primary engine of growth, assuming individual growth would naturally follow. As economic growth proved disappointingly slow in these early decades -- or population growth outstripped economic gains -- emerging professionals in development organizations looked for new ways to define development in terms of individual welfare. In this evolving discourse, education -- previously just one of several strategies to achieve national economic growth -- became central to individual or human development. According to Chabbott, the Education for All Conference (1990) exemplifies this recent emphasis on individual development. Chabbott's perspective on the conference -- and its redefinition of the roles of nation-states and international organizations -- sheds new light on comparative education and development policies. Constructing Education for Development offers a detailed look at the institutions responsible for development, and charts the changing ways in which they organize social life
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