UNESCO's utopia of lifelong learning : an intellectual history / Maren Elfert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elfert, Maren, author.

Series:

Routledge research in lifelong learning and adult education series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unesco--History.

Unesco.

Unesco Institute for Lifelong Learning--History.

Unesco Institute for Lifelong Learning.

Education--International cooperation.

Education.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 254 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

With a focus on lifelong learning, this book examines the shifts that UNESCO's educational concepts have undergone in reaction to historical pressures and dilemmas since the founding of the organization in 1945. The tensions between UNESCO's humanistic worldview and the pressures placed on the organization have forced UNESCO to depart from its utopian vision of lifelong learning, while still claiming continuity. Elfert interprets the history of lifelong learning in UNESCO as part of a much bigger story of a struggle of ideologies between a humanistic-emancipatory and an economistic-technocratic worldview. With a close study of UNESCO's two education flagship reports, the Faure and Delors reports, Elfert sheds light on the global impact of UNESCO's professed humanistic goals and its shifting influence on lifelong learning around the world.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

UNESCO's humanism : the challenge of "unity in diversity"

UNESCO's early years : human rights, high hopes and harsh realities

Éducation permanente and the "crisis of education"

Learning to be : the Faure report

The Delors report and the 1990s

The struggle of ideologies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138242524

1138242527

OCLC:

975369130