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To trace the ideological continuities connecting early twentieth-century colonial education policy to contemporary globalized educational frameworks.

March 31, 2025Compare A Journal of Comparative and International EducationOpen Access

Continent imaginaries across time: official educational discourse from the progressive USA to UNESCO

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MNMadhu NarayananPortland State University

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Comparative discourse analysis uncovers persistent modern social imaginaries in official educational reports, highlighting enduring assumptions linking mass schooling to social progress.

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To trace the ideological continuities connecting early twentieth-century colonial education policy to contemporary globalized educational frameworks.
Comparative discourse analysis examining two landmark policy documents: the United States 1928 Meriam Report and UNESCO's 2023 Global Education Monitoring Report.
Evaluation of linguistic features, including vocabulary, grammar, form, and medium, to identify persistent socio-political narratives and symbols of modernity.
Identified a thematic shift from imperial expansion, administrative development, and Indigenous assimilation toward transnational community building, human rights, and quantitative measurement.
Demonstrated an underlying ideological unity across both eras that consistently positions modern mass schooling as the mandatory instrument for social progress.

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Madhu Narayanan (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a16917366334ab13b050651 https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2025.2483662

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Comparative discourse analysis uncovers persistent modern social imaginaries in official educational reports, highlighting enduring assumptions linking mass schooling to social progress.

Continent imaginaries across time: official educational discourse from the progressive USA to UNESCO

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Continent imaginaries across time: official educational discourse from the progressive USA to UNESCO

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