Recent research has advanced the understanding of how global processes have led to standardized ideas about modern schooling. Chabbott provides an insightful examination of how the processes of international development have effected the role of education at a global level since World War II.
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Setting the Stage; Chapter 3 Discourse; Chapter 4 International Development as an Organizational Field; Chapter 5 Educational Development Professionals; Chapter 6 Conferences to Universalize Education,1945?€"1990; Conclusion; Appendix A Protocol for Identifying International Development Organizations; Appendix B Major Postwar International Conferences on Mass Education; References; Index;