Introduction: Epistemic Power Without Innocence
Debates about international organisations (IOs) and epistemic power often fall into two unsatisfying camps: either IOs are treated as largely neutral platforms for global coordination, or they are framed as little more than vehicles for Western … 
international organisations
governing education: international organisations, populism and the pandemic
Epistemic Governance
In exploring how International Organisations (IOs) use knowledge to govern education, this paper draws on research that, over time, identifies changes in governing and changes in knowledge, and analyses their interdependencies. The first phase of research, in the early 2000s, …
international organisations, scientism and the governance of education
Introduction
International organisations established within the post–World War II multilateral order have played a central role in advancing a modernist worldview based on rationality and science, with profound and enduring consequences for education. In the post-war era, the seemingly apolitical …
editorial: knowing, governing, and measuring: the epistemic power of international organisations
In September 1965, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) convened the World Congress of Ministers of Education on the Eradication of Illiteracy in Teheran, Iran. UNESCO itself described the congress as an “historic turning-point” (UNESCO, 1977, p. 242) and “an …