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The World Bank as a Development Teacher

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ID6189056
AuthorsAdrian Robert Bazbauers (0000-0001-8569-6374, corresponding author), Adrian Bazbauers
Year2016
Volume22
Issue3
Pages409-426
Publication date2016-08-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Governance A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1075-2846 • E-ISSN: 1942-6720
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/19426720-02203007
OpenAlexW2521999500
LanguageEN
Citations received7

The World Bank has been widely critiqued as a source of development norms. Yet one aspect of its activities has received relatively little academic attention: the socialization of development norms through training programs. This article addresses this gap in the literature by analyzing changes in the curricula, pedagogy, and methodology of the Economic Development Institute and the World Bank Institute—the teaching and learning arm of the World Bank. The article argues that, unlike the coercive nature of World Bank loan conditionality, the two teaching institutes have operated quietly in the background attempting to persuasively habitualize and naturalize member country participants into accepting particular understandings of and approaches to development as best practice and common sense. It concludes that the institutes have been active in the creation of toolkits used to socialize individuals into accepting and following World Bank development norms

Conditionality · Curriculum · Economics · Loan · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · International Development and Aid · Law · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development · Finance

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Unique citing works7
Citations per year0,78
Citation span2017 - 2026 (10)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 7
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