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UN Reform Series: Suggested reading on
UNESCO
Contact Dr. Limage for
further specialized readings.
Articles:
Limage, Leslie (2007) “Organizational challenges to
international cooperation for literacy”, in Comparative
Education, Vol. 43, No. 3, August. Pages 451-468.
Limage, Leslie (2009) Multilateral cooperation for literacy
promotion under stress: governance and management issues:” in
Literacy and Numeracy Studies, Volume 17, No. 2, pp.
5-33.
Books:
Jones, Phillip W. with Coleman, David. (2006) The United
Nations and Education. Multilateralism, development and
globalization, RoutledgeFalmer, New York.
Weiss, Thomas G. and Daws, Sam. (2007). The Oxford Handbook
on the United Nations. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Official reports and documents:
UNESCO. (1945) Constitution. Available at
http://www.unesco.org
United Nations Joint Inspection Unit (2009). “Towards more
coherent UN Support to Africa” UNJIU, Geneva. JIU/REP/2009/5
available at:
http://www.unjiu.org
UNESCO. (2010). “Coordination and Monitoring of Action to
Benefit Africa”, 184 UNESCO Executive Board, 184 EX/INF.15.
UNESCO, Paris. Available at:
http://www.unesco.org
Websites:
UNESCO:
http://www.unesco.org
United Nations:
http://www.un.org
Further reading for interested students
on UN mandate controversies and multilateralism of relevance
to UNESCO:
Bolton, John (2007). Surrender is not an Option.
Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad.
Threshold Editions. New York.
Easterly, William. (2006). The White Man’s Burden. Why the
West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done so Much Ill and So
Little Good.. The Penguin Press, New York.
Kennedy, David. (2004). The Dark Sides of Virtue.
Reassessing International Humanitarianism. Princeton
University Press, Princeton.
Meyer, Jeffrey A. and Califano, Mark G., (2006). Good
Intentions Corrupted. The Oil-for-Food Scandal and the Threat
to the U.N. Based on the Reports of the Independent
Inquiry Committee, with an introduction by Volcker, Paul A.
(Chair). Public Affairs, Perseus Books, New York.
Obama, Barack (May 2010). National Security Strategy. U.S.
Government. Available at U.S. White House website:
www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss
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Professor
Figaji is currently Chair of the South Africa National
Commission for UNESCO. He was South Africa’s representative on
UNESCO’s Executive Board for the period 2005-2009 and during
this time he was also Vice President for the Africa group. He
was instrumental in providing particular leadership on UNESCO
financial and administrative matters within the governing body.
He first called for a comprehensive external evaluation of the
Organization in 2008 to prepare it for the future under the new
leadership that was due to be elected. He is director of
companies (regional and national) including Chair of the
Development Fund which is the development arm of the Development
Bank of Southern Africa. The Fund specializes in infrastructure
and human capacity development within local authorities. He is
also a member of the Advisory Committee on National Orders Board
that advises the President on recipients of National awards, the
Ministerial Committee set up to review the country’s science
policy, and former member of the National Council on Higher
Education. He is former Vice-Chancellor of the Peninsula
Technikon (now Cape Peninsula University of Technology). He is a
graduate of the University of Cape Town, University of the
Western Cape, UNISA and Harvard University. He holds positions
on numerous boards of professional and charitable bodies in
South Africa. He has been involved in many international
professional networks, programs and bilateral projects ranging
from matters affecting small-scale business enterprises to
education policy formulation and tertiary education.
Dr.
Limage is an independent international and comparative education expert.
She was a career Programme Specialist with the UNESCO Education Sector in
Paris for twenty-five years where she carried out advisory services to
governments, projects and studies in basic education, literacy, education
system policy and reform, education in post-conflict and reconstruction
settings. Prior to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization), she worked at the OECD (Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development) Paris, on education for multicultural
societies, migration and labor market and women in the economy. She has
been a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and
Arizona State University. She holds degrees and graduate degrees from the
University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Paris, and
University of London Institute of Education. She is the author or editor
of numerous books, scholarly articles, official reports and studies in
education-related fields, She is currently studying, lecturing and writing
on UN reform and multilateral engagement, chairing an Education Policy
Group on U.S. education reform and consulting in France on literacy
evaluation policies and methods.
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