Globalization and Education: Integration and Contestation across Cultures
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The effects of globalization have long been dealt with in terms of economic and technological consequences, but what about the influence on education? Though still not a precise concept, what we understand as “globalization” is bringing forth numerous and profound changes in the economic, cultural, and political life of nations. With increased opportunities for interaction and learning, education around the world is rapidly becoming transformed. The essays contained in this comprehensive yet readable book, strive to provide a thorough examination of the impact these changes are having on how education is defined, whom it serves, and how it is assessed around the world.
Globalization and Education is organized into three sections. The first addresses conceptual and theoretical issues underlying such notions as globalization, internationalization, and multilateralism. The second presents empirical data from various contries and provides examples of shifts and transformations within a specific level or modality of the educational system. The third looks at the totality of educational changes taking the nation as the unit of analysis.
Part 1 Conceptual Issues
Chapter 2 Defining Globalization and Assessing Its Implications
on
Knowledge and Education
Chapter 3 Globalization and Internationalism: Democratic Prospects
for World Education
Chapter 4 Globalization and Educational Reform
Chapter 5 Educational Reform: Who are the Radicals?
Chapter 6 Globalization and Curriculum Inquiry: Locating,
Representing, and Performing aTransnational Imaginary
Chapter 7 Globalization and the Social Construction of Reality:
Affirming or Unmasking the "Inevitable"?
Part 8 Globalization Impacts in Various Educational Sectors
Chapter 9 Alternative Responses to Globalization from European and
South African Universities
Chapter 10 Globalization of the Community College Model: Paradox of
the Local and Global
Chapter 11 Local/Global Labor Markets and the Restructuring of
Gender, Schooling, and Work
Chapter 12 Globalization, Adult Education, and Development
Part 13 National Case Studies of Globalization Impacts
Chapter 14 Globalization and Universities in the Commonwealth
Caribbean
Chapter 15 Internationalization in Japanese Education: Current
Issues and Future Prospects
Chapter 16 Globalization and Decentralization in Sub-Saharan
Africa:Focus Lesotho
Chapter 17 Globalization and Educational Policies in Mexico,
1988-1994: A Meeting of the Universal and the Particular
Chapter 18 South African Higher Education in Transition: Global
Discourses and National Priorities
Chapter 19 The Impacts of Globalization on Education in
Malaysia
Chapter 20 Hanging onto the Edge: An Australian Case Study of
Women, Universities, and Globalization
Chapter 21 Index
People interested in this arena should read it.
With all the recent writing on globalization, it is a welcome addition to find a book that deals comprehensively with the relationship between globalization and education at all levels and comparatively in different countries, both developed and developing. It is unusual for such a book to be a cohesive whole, and yet it manages to be that. The quality of various contributions is quite consistent. There is something for everyone who takes a critical perspective on globalization here. Highly recommended.
This is an excellent and timely book. It deals with enough issues that one could build an entire graduate course around. In addition, it raises enough questions that go far beyond the purview of a textbook. The chapters are so well referenced that the reader can take any of these issues and pursue them in greater depths.
Globalization and Education offers a set of insightful and pioneering articles by well-known and thoughtful scholars on some of the most important social issues of our times. It analyzes economic and cultural dimensions of globalization within the political context of the world system. This is a must-read for students and scholars in the field.
Product Details
- Title : Globalization and Education: Integration and Contestation across Cultures
- Authors:
- Stromquist, Nelly P.
- Monkman, Karen
- Blackmore, Jill
- Buenfil, Rosa Nidia
- Carnoy, Martin
- Corneilse, Carol
- Currie, Jan
- Gough, Noel
- Hickling-Hudson, Anne
- Odora Hoppers, Catherine A.
- Jones, Phillip W.
- Kelly, Peter
- Kenway, Jane
- N. Lee, Molly N.
- Monkman, Karen
- Parmenter, Lynne
- Raby, Rosalind Latiner
- Rideout, William M., Jr.
- Rust, Val D.
- Soudien, Crain
- Stromquist, Nelly P.
- Subotzky, George
- Walters, Shirley
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publication Date: 2000
- ISBN: 9781461636878
Nelly P. Stromquist is professor in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. Karen Monkman is assistant professor in the International and Intercultural Development Education Program at Florida State University.