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, …
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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 …

