caa a22 4500 606210393 CHVBK 20210128101033.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11125-015-9347-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11125-015-9347-0 Dugonjić Leonora Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique, CSE/CNRS- Site Pouchet, 59/61 rue Pouchet, 75849, Paris Cedex 17, France aut Who needs a United Nations school? A struggle between international officials and education specialists, New York, 1946-1949 [Elektronische Daten] [Leonora Dugonjić] What are the origins of international schools? Authors in the fields of education and institutional history often point to the "need” of an invisible group of parents. This need, and the "demand” these schools claim to fulfill, haunt common discourse. From a historical and sociological viewpoint, however, these are precisely the factors that require explanation. This article draws on several archival sources to analyze competing projects and visions of the United Nations International School in New York and to thus reconstruct its origins. The analysis shows that the founders of this school were neither an established occupational group of international civil servants nor an organized group of parents. On the contrary, high-level officials mobilized around the cause of a United Nations school in their quest for other status claims. A historical sociology of international education can therefore effectively replace the myth of origins, providing a better understanding of international civil servants as a social group. UNESCO IBE, 2015 Elite education nationallicence Historical sociology nationallicence International civil service nationallicence International education nationallicence International School of Geneva nationallicence United Nations International School nationallicence Social reproduction nationallicence PROSPECTS Springer Netherlands 45/1(2015-03-01), 127-140 0033-1538 45:1<127 2015 45 11125 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-015-9347-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-015-9347-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dugonjić Leonora Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique, CSE/CNRS- Site Pouchet, 59/61 rue Pouchet, 75849, Paris Cedex 17, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- PROSPECTS Springer Netherlands 45/1(2015-03-01), 127-140 0033-1538 45:1<127 2015 45 11125