The future and the past are unevenly distributed: COVID’s educational disruptions and UNESCO’s global reports on education

• Noah W. Sobe ^[1]
  1. [1] Loyola University Chicago
• Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 58, Nº. 5, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Histories of the Past and Histories of the Future: Pandemics and Historians of Education), págs. 802-812
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  • For half a century the UN’s principal agency on education, UNESCO, has sought to shape the world’s educational landscape through a once-every-generation global report (e.g. the Faure report of 1972 and the Delors report of 1996). The latest of these reports – the Sahle-Work Commission’s “Reimagining our futures together: A new social contract for education” – was developed and released amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. This article considers the ways the pandemic entered into the production of educational futures – and pasts – in this tradition of UNESCO global reports. It argues that the uneven distribution of pasts and futures is one of the key, already-existing systems of difference that set the stage for a disruptive event like the COVID-19 pandemic.