ABSTRACT
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was established in 1945 with twin aims: to rebuild various institutions of the world destroyed by war, and to promote international understanding and peaceful cooperation among nations. Based on empirical and historical research and with a particular focus on history teaching, international understanding and peace, UNESCO Without Borders offers a new research trajectory for understanding the roles played by UNESCO and other international organizations, as well as the effects of globalization on education.
With fifteen chapters by authors from cross-disciplinary and diverse geographical areas, this book assesses the global implications and results of UNESCO’s educational policies and practices. It explores how UNESCO-approved guidelines of textbook revisions and peace initiatives were implemented in member-states, illustrating the existence of both national confrontations with the new worldview promoted by UNESCO, as well as the constraints of international cooperation.
This book provides an insightful analysis of UNESCO’s past challenges and also indicates promising future research directions in support of international understanding for peace and cooperation. As such, it will be of key interest to researchers, postgraduate students, academics in the fields of international and comparative education, education politics and policies, and to those interested in the historical study of international organizations and their global impact. The book will also appeal to practitioners, especially those who conduct research on or work in post-conflict societies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |32 pages
Introductory framework
part |92 pages
Campaigns for international understanding and peace
chapter |23 pages
UNESCO's re-education activities in postwar Japan and Germany
chapter |18 pages
The role of science education in the nuclear age
chapter |16 pages
UNESCO's education for living in a world community
chapter |16 pages
Advancing international understanding in Africa
part |76 pages
UNESCO and the politics of history education
chapter |20 pages
History at the intersection of human rights, international understanding, and past memories
chapter |18 pages
Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexico, and the struggle over international understanding and history writing
chapter |18 pages
UNESCO and “Better History Textbooks”
part |36 pages
UNESCO's experiments with race, science, and antiracism
chapter |18 pages
Perturbed by “Race”
part |41 pages
UNESCO and international understanding in a divided world