The International Bureau of Education (1925-1968) "The Ascent From the Individual to the Universal" /

This open access book offers a critical analysis of the history of the International Bureau of Education (IBE) from its founding in 1925 to its integration into UNESCO in January 1969. Based on the conceptual and methodological tools of the transnational turn and on archives, fully exploited for the...

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Main Authors: Hofstetter, Rita (Author), Schneuwly, Bernard (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Edition:1st ed. 2024.
Series:Global Histories of Education,
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. General Introduction
  • Chapter 2. The primacy of education to pacify the world?
  • Chapter 3. The IBE: a federating platform
  • Chapter 4. Achieving intergovernmental legitimacy
  • Chapter 5. During the war, the IBE prepares the post-war period
  • Chapter 6. "A marriage of convenience" with UNESCO?
  • Chapter 7. Towards a destabilising universality. The swan song?
  • Chapter 8. From the Institut Rousseau to the IBE: promoting a New Era
  • Chapter 9. Facing equivocations, tightrope acrobatics
  • Chapter 10. The IBE axiom: "rising from the individual to the universal"
  • Chapter 11. Scenography of the first intergovernmental parliament on education
  • Chapter 12. A commitment that was all the more binding because it was freely chosen
  • Chapter 13. "Raising comparative education to the level of intergovernmental cooperation"
  • Chapter 14. Towards a universality of voices
  • Chapter 15. Joining the IBE? The influence of global power relations
  • Chapter 16. Contradictions linked to the universalist aim
  • Chapter 17. Education is a political issue
  • Chapter 18. School subjects in the service of peace and the individual
  • Chapter 19. Teachers, "architects of the future of humanity"
  • Chapter 20. On the fate of women: "equality does not mean identity
  • Chapter 21. From educational justice to social justice
  • Chapter 22. The "family of nations" and its racial, cultural and colonial discriminations.