Globalization and Education: Integration and Contestation across Cultures
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (810 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1475805284 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 332 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. Her work focuses on education as it relates to globalization, gender, and migration. She studies globalization, gender, and adult education policies and practices from a critical sociological perspective.Karen Monkman is a professor of educational policy studies at DePaul University. Nelly P. Stromquist is professor of international education policy at the University of Maryland
Recognizing the areas of convergence, dissonance, and conflict should help us grasp with greater clarity the implications of globalization for education and knowledge in the XXI century. The contributors to this book include both well-known scholars in the field of comparative education as well as young scholars. The expanding interest in the intersection of education and globalization has brought up several new topics, including: the salience of global education policies, notably EFA; the expansion and differentiation of higher education; the emphasis on work-related training; the increasing role of non-state actors such as the transnational corporations; and greater attention to human rights. In fundamental ways, the forces of globalization challenge the previous approaches and theories of national development. The authors analyze phenomena on the global plane, in local spaces, and in the connections between the global and the local. Also in this new edition is a chapter on qualitative metho
Monkman and Stromquist skillful editing brings life to this important James L. Hall Monkman and Stromquist skillful editing brings life to this important topic which otherwise for the lay person might be hard to grasp.
The editors assembled a diverse and highly qualified group of scholars that have contributed the most engaging, vivid, and in-depth discussions of key contemporary educational issues, ranging from models of understanding globalization to multiple forms of discrimination occurring in schools, and to ways of inquiring about global processes in different regions of the world. Rather than seeing globalization as an external, coercive force that turns national and local actors into passive recipients and implementers of international “standards” and “best practices,” the contributors disentangle the concept and analyze in fascinating ways what globalization means and does to educational development in different contexts and countries.