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Aung, Thu Ya; Straubhaar, Rolf – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2021
Due to the historically outsized influence of the United Kingdom's development assistance office on international aid, a better understanding of the underlying ideologies and political priorities guiding this agency would help the larger aid community more clearly understand the power dynamics and structural context of the development industry.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Political Influences, Power Structure, Educational Policy
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Silova, Iveta – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2008
The NGO boom of the 1990s was matched by mounting literature on the influence of NGOs on world politics. The 1998 inaugural issue of "Current Issues in Comparative Education" ("CICE")--"Are NGOs Overrated?"--brought these debates into the very center of international and comparative education. The journal issue inspired a fascinating conversation…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Educational Change, Nongovernmental Organizations, International Organizations
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Steiner-Khamsi, Gita; deJong-Lambert, William – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2006
The authors contend that the impact of the Cold War on multilateral organizations (especially UNESCO) as well as on the academic programs in Comparative and International Education or Development Studies in Education has been largely understudied. Both world-systems (USA and its allies, Soviet Union and its allies) laid claim on the project of…
Descriptors: International Education, Comparative Education, Peace, Foreign Countries