The International Race over the Patronage of the South: Comparative and International Education in Eastern Europe and the United States

Autor/inn/en	Steiner-Khamsi, Gita; deJong-Lambert, William
Titel	The International Race over the Patronage of the South: Comparative and International Education in Eastern Europe and the United States
Quelle	In: Current Issues in Comparative Education, 8 (2006) 2, S.84-94 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1523-1615
Schlagwörter	International Education; Comparative Education; Peace; Foreign Countries; Foreign Policy; International Relations; International Cooperation; Social Change; Political Socialization; International Organizations; Political Influences; Political Power; Europe; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Internationale Erziehung; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Frieden; Ausland; Außenpolitik; Internationale Beziehungen; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Sozialer Wandel; Politische Sozialisation; International organisation; International organisations; International organization; Internationale Organisation; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Politische Macht; Europa; USA
Abstract	The authors contend that the impact of the Cold War on multilateral organizations (especially UNESCO) as well as on the academic programs in Comparative and International Education or Development Studies in Education has been largely understudied. Both world-systems (USA and its allies, Soviet Union and its allies) laid claim on the project of world peace that UNESCO was meant to pursue. Furthermore, the boom in area, language and development studies in the 1960s was closely associated with the international race between the two world-systems over the patronage of those postcolonial countries that were viewed as "non-aligned" or neutralist. The salutary effects upon education policy in the United States are described, along with the portrayal of education as an inferior aspect of the capitalist system, behind the "iron curtain." The authors note the new research field of post-Cold War studies that emerged in U.S. academe over the past decade, and find that such studies are surprisingly scarce in comparative and international education which, by virtue of analyzing other educational systems, was at the center of the dichotomy. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Teachers College, Columbia University. International and Transcultural Studies, P.O. Box 211, 525 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027. e-mail: info@cicejournal.org; Web site: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/cice
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10