History of Japanese Policies in Education Aid to Developing Countries, 1950s-1990s: The Role of the Subgovernmental Processes

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Psychology Press, 2002 - Education - 147 pages
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Purpose -- Defining "Education Aid"--International Trends in Education Aid Thinking -- Significance -- Literature Review -- Japan's Education Aid and Its Historical Development as An Understudied Arena -- Aid as the Site of Subgovernmental Contest and Conflict -- Aid as Reflected in the Shifting Foreign Policy -- Research Methodology -- Chapter Outline -- PART I: 1950s-1960s -- Chapter 2 The 1950s: Post-War Recovery Efforts as the Foundation of Education Aid -- Education Subgovernment: UNESCO Activities and Foreign Student Programs -- UNESCO as A First World Window, 1945-52 -- UNESCO Activities and Japan's Involvement, 1947-60 -- Foreign Student Programs, 1954-60 -- ODA Subgovernment: Technical Assistance and Education Aid -- Colombo Plan and Technical Assistance, 1948-61 -- War Reparations and Economic Cooperation, 1955-60 -- Major Developments in the 1950s -- Chapter 3 Japan's Emergence as a Donor in the Early 1960s and the Development of Education Aid in the Late 1960s -- ODA Subgovernment: Technical Cooperation in Education -- Initiation of Organized Western Aid in the Late 1950s -- Beginning of Engagement in Technical Cooperation: Creation of the Overseas Technical Cooperation Agency (OTCA), 1960-62 -- ODA Subgovernment's Education Aid, 1962-74 -- Education Subgovernment: Education "Cooperation" with UNESCO -- Beginning of Substantial Engagement in Education Aid: The 1960 Karachi Plan -- Toward Regional Leadership: The Tokyo Conference in 1962 -- Japan as A Regional Leader: Cooperative Research Initiative, 1963-65 -- Turning Point: Japanese National Commission for UNESCO's Policy Shift in 1965 -- Major Developments in the 1960s -- PART II: 1970s-1990s
 

Contents

Defining Education Aid
7
Literature Review
13
CHAPTER 2
25
Technical Assistance and Education
30
17
36
JAPANS EMERGENCE AS A Donor in THE EARLY 1960S AND THE DEVELOPMENT
39
The Tokyo Conference in 1962
45
CHAPTER 4
57
Formulation of New International Education
74
656
78
Major Developments in the 1970s and the 1980s
88
Seeking A Larger Role in Education
101
Japanese ODA and Global Leadership
117
APPENDIX II
123
REFERENCES
131
INDEX
139

Expansion of UNESCO Cooperation
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Page ix - Official development assistance (ODA) consists of net disbursements of loans and grants made on concessional financial terms by official agencies of the members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to promote economic development and welfare.
Page x - GRANTS to nationals of aid recipient countries receiving education or training at home or abroad, and ii) payments to consultants, advisers and similar personnel as well as teachers and administrators serving in recipient countries. TIED AID: Official GRANTS or LOANS where procurement of the goods or services involved is limited to the donor country or to a group of countries which does not include substantially all aid recipients.
Page vii - Subgovernments thus constitute a set of interest-based cleavages that divide the entire decision-making system. These cleavages are crucially reinforced by the deep formalorganization cleavages between the ministries. Interactions within subgovernments must be taken into account in analyzing the conflict patterns of nearly all policy issues, and moreover the relationships between subgovernments are the key to understanding most issues that are broader than the jurisdiction of a single ministry.34...

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