Session Information
17 SES 13, Knowledge in Education: Circulations, Transformations, Implementations in a Transnational Perspective Part 2
Symposium
Contribution
The IBE, created in 1925 by the Institut Rousseau, became intergovernemental in 1929, and associated with UNESCO since 1947. It defines itself as nationally, politically and denominationally neutral and acting in a “strictly scientific and objective spirit”. Its promoters conceived it as THE tribune regrouping all actors who work for international cooperation in education. Their mission: favor circulation of knowledge everywhere in order to collectively elaborate a “charter of world aspirations in educational matters”. The available archives (thousands of letters, reports and publications) show that these documentary, universalist and pacifist ambitions are not free from cruel concurrence: many associations and cities aspired to become the world capital of peace through education. The paradoxes of this effort during the first twenty years represent both the challenges for IBE’s survival and the outline of this paper: 1 giving up on all obligations and political statements so as to ensure effective actions at governmental level; 2 documenting local needs so as to establish a world charter; 3 supporting mass schooling through state involvement for promoting individual emancipation; 4 advocating scientific objectivity for spreading militant methods of New Education; 5 acting upon schooling, reserved hunting grounds of nations, for building up international education.
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