Approach of international organizations in relation to education, development and empowerment: ÇATOM as an example

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This thesis is meant to describe and analyze approach of international organizations in relation to education, development and empowerment as well as their role at the intersection of these three concepts. In its attempt to understand the nature of international involvement in education with a development discourse and particularly to see the effects of this involvement on the target groups of the projects and programs, the thesis explores Multi-Purpose Community Centers (ÇATOMs) in Turkey’s southeast. The thesis identifies, on the one hand, that the ÇATOM project supports the analyses in the literature regarding the role of international organizations in the institutionalization of the idea of ‘education for development’ and in the standardization and dissemination of their own discourses about this idea. On the other hand, the current work proposes that ÇATOMs as a project supported by international organizations have produced rather limited but meaningful outcomes in terms of its economic effects on the participants; however, more importantly, it has also created qualitative changes on the daily life of the beneficiaries, which may contribute to social transformation of the region in the long term.

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Ö. Güven, “Approach of international organizations in relation to education, development and empowerment: ÇATOM as an example,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2010.