Chapter 5 Much Ado about Nothing? Lights and Shadows of the World Bank’s Support of Spanish Aspirations to Educational Modernization (1968–1972)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Chapter 1 Educational Reform, Modernization, and Development: A Cold War Transnational Process 1
6. Chapter 2 US Assistance to Educational Reform in Spain: Soft Power in Exchange for Military Bases 40
7. Chapter 3 Forerunners of Change? The Ford Foundation’s Activities in Francoist Spain 78
8. Chapter 4 Educational Transfer and Local Actors: International Intervention in Spain during the Late Franco Period 101
9. Chapter 5 Much Ado about Nothing? Lights and Shadows of the World Bank’s Support of Spanish Aspirations to Educational Modernization (1968–1972) 127
10. Chapter 6 US Foreign Policy toward Spanish Students: Youth Diplomacy, Modernization, and Educational Reform 149
11. Chapter 7 How a Cold War Education Project Backfired: Modernization Theory, the Alliance for Progress, and the 1968 Education Reform in El Salvador 172
12. Chapter 8 “Passing through a Critical Moment”: The United States and Brazilian University Reform in the 1960s 195
13. Chapter 9 Between the Eagle and the Condor: The Ford Foundation and the Modernization of the University of Chile (1965–1975) 221
14. Chapter 10 Between Modernization and University Reform (1957–1973): Technical Assistance from UNESCO to the University of Concepción 246
15. Index 265