American Cultural Diplomacy and Post-War Educational Reforms: James Bryant Conant's Mission to Italy in 1960

Autor/in	Mariuzzo, Andrea
Titel	American Cultural Diplomacy and Post-War Educational Reforms: James Bryant Conant's Mission to Italy in 1960
Quelle	In: History of Education, 45 (2016) 3, S.352-371 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0046-760X
DOI	10.1080/0046760X.2016.1154192
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Change; International Relations; Change Strategies; International Educational Exchange; Secondary Education; Educational Planning; Strategic Planning; Philanthropic Foundations; Program Evaluation; Program Effectiveness; Educational Opportunities; Educational History; Italy; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungsreform; Internationale Beziehungen; Lösungsstrategie; Internationaler Austausch; Sekundarbereich; Bildungsplanung; Strategy; Planning; Strategie; Planung; Philanthropismus; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Italien; USA
Abstract	This paper, largely based on new, previously unused documents from US archives, considers the consultancy group financed by the Ford Foundation in 1960 to support the school reforms the Italian Minister of Education Giuseppe Medici was promoting. The group was headed by James Bryant Conant, and its evaluations were based on principles of "meritocratic" democratisation: universal access to comprehensive lower secondary school should have been accompanied by "cooling out" mechanisms at subsequent levels. Conant's suggestions were ignored. In 1962, the new "Scuola media" was established thanks to a compromise between the Christian Democrats and the Socialists, and was founded on uniform treatment and equal outcomes rather than equal starting points in competition. In spite of this, the Italian experience was subsequently used within the Ford Foundation to integrate Conant's ideas in their strategies for international programmes, and gave birth to planning studies for national education requirements based on manpower needs. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01