Globalizing Education: Policies, Pedagogies, and Politics (280) (Counterpoints) - Softcover

«...a superb collection of original papers about the ways in which globalization - from above, below and in-between - intersects with the urgent task of rethinking educational policies, pedagogies, and politics. In a world of increasingly coordinated capital, growing movement of people, an oppressive global regime of security, uneven distribution of new technologies, and state educational policies subservient to the logic of the market, the essays in this book seek to develop the philosophical and political resources that might address the deeply worrying trends toward mindless celebration of consumerism and the accentuation of global inequalities. In the face of this pessimism, this somewhat optimistic book is a major contribution in the re-assertion of democratic politics in education.» (Fazal Rizvi, Professor of Education, Department of Education Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
«This rich collection of original essays, organized around the themes of the political economy of education and the production of knowledge and identities, will be of great interest and value to anyone interested in the relationships between globalization and education. It extends and deepens discussions and appreciations of how globalization, conceived as 'complex connectivities', pervades educational transactions of multiple kinds.» (Roger Dale, Professor of Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
«This timely collection of rich and diverse studies of the complex relationship between globalization and education fills an important gap in our understanding of these processes.» (Susan Robertson, Professor of Sociology of Education, University of Bristol, United Kingdom)

Because «globalization» is expressed in many ways and evokes complex responses, it demands various lines of analysis. Globalizing Education shows how this phenomenon is mediated and mitigated by a range of educational policies, pedagogies, and politics. It identifies the forms of educational governance associated with neoliberal globalism and their manifold effects on nation-state education systems, highlighting the colonizing minority-world imperatives and retraditionalizing ramifications. It also shows how the global cultural economy - the disjunctive flows of images, people, and ideas - both challenges and reinforces conventional educational trajectories. The global/national mesh-works created by drugs, technology, and unions are among the complicated connectivities explored. This book exposes the more pernicious effects on education of neo-liberal and corporate globalization and explores and identifies innovative and transformative educational policies, pedagogies, and politics.