Educational Internationalism in the Cold War

This edited volume delves into the intricate landscape of educational internationalism during the Cold War, providing an in-depth examination of its diverse forms, impulses, and global impacts.

Autorentext

Damiano Matasci is a senior research associate at the University of Geneva. His research explores the history of Europe and colonial Africa in a transnational and transimperial perspective, with a focus on education, childhood, and science. He is the author of Internationaliser l'éducation. La France, l'UNESCO et la fin des empires coloniaux en Afrique, 1945*-1961 (2023) and L'école républicaine et l'étranger. Une histoire internationale des réformes scolaires en France, 1870-*1914 (2015).

Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz is a senior lecturer at the History Department of the University of Lausanne. Her research focuses on the history of international cultural relations and draws on a variety of fields and approaches: history of the media, history of European integration, and digital history. She is the author of La voix de la Suisse à l'étranger. Radio et relations culturelles internationales (1932*-*1949). She is currently conducting research on the pro-European educational networks during the Cold War. She was a visiting fellow at the Department of History and Civilization of the European University Institute in Florence and a visiting professor at the Research Center of Excellence "Écrire une histoire nouvelle de l'Europe" (LabEx EHNE) in Paris.

Inhalt

Foreword Introduction: Internationalism, Education, and the Global Cold War Part 1: Rethinking Educational Exchanges and Encounters 1. British European University Interchange Policy (1945-1956): Constructing a European Identity? 2. North Korean Orphans in Poland: Experiences and Legacies of Education in Socialist Internationalism, 1953-1962 4. Building the Bridge: Chinese Immigrant Scholars in American Universities, 1950s-1970s Part 2: Shaping Minds and Societies 5. Knowledge for Free? Why Two US American "Mobile Radioisotope Training Laboratories" Embarked on a World Tour in 1958 6. Assessing the Role of Subnational Actors in Educational Cooperation and Development Aid: The Case of Bavaria 7. Fighting Communism with Political Education: the Schweizerische Aufklärungsdienst and the Anti-Communist Network People and Defence, 1965-1985 Part 3: Models and Counter-Models 8. American Fairs and Soviet Olympiads: Scientific Youth Competitions as Elite Fostering and Cold War Internationalism 9. UNESCO and the Question of Early Childhood Education During the Cold War 10. Envisioning Egalitarian Education: The OECD Perspective on Japanese Education in 1970 Part 4: Views from the Global South 11. From "Mutual Understanding" to Anti-Communist Propaganda? The Institute of International Education and Chile (1919-1961) 12. Fond Hopes and Vital Needs: Abiva Publishing, the UN, and the Philippines' Internationalist Moment 13. Journalism Training in 1960s East Africa, or the Transferability of a Stapler 14. "It was the time of utopias, of turbulence, the time of Africa". Algerian Students and French Coopérants in the Global 1960s 15. South-South Development Aid and Collaboration: the "Internationalist Schools" of the Isla de la Juventud in Cuba Conclusion: Sites of Exchange: Locating Mobility in Cold War Internationalisms