Globalization and Education

Integration and Contestation across Cultures

Nelly P. Stromquist, Karen Monkman

• Publisher: R&L Education
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781475805291
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Educational Psychology
• Index: Social Sciences

We offer in this book a collection of chapters that reflect a broad range of issues linking globalization to education in an accessible yet theoretically grounded and detailed form. The authors analyze phenomena on the global plane, in local spaces, and in the connections between the global and the local. New developments such as the growing impact of technology on education, the emergence of new policy actors, the growing expansion and segmentation of higher education, the salience of human rights, among others, are emerging as powerful agendas shaping all levels of education. In fundamental ways, the forces of globalization challenge the previous approaches and theories of national development. 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 chapters present a balanced geographical coverage in terms of authors and the countries/regions examined.

The second edition has been thoroughly updated throughout and contains seven new chapters. 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. Also in this new edition is a chapter on qualitative methodologies especially suitable to the understanding of the intersection of globalization and education.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Preface
• Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Conceptual and Methodological Issues
• Defining Globalization and Assessing its Implications for Knowledge and Education, Revisited
• Globalization, Educational Change, and the National State
• Globalization and Global Governance in Education
• The Productive Plasticity of Rights: Globalization, Education, and Human Rights
• “The Girl Effect”: U.S. Transnational Corporate Investment in Girls’ Education
• Globalization and Curriculum Inquiry: Performing Transnational Imaginaries
• Globalization and the Social Construction of Reality: Affirming or Unmasking the “Inevitable”?
• Studying Globalization: The Vertical Case Study Approach
• Globalization Impacts in Various Educational Sectors
• Globalization Responses from European and Australian University Sectors
• Globalization of the Community College Model: Paradox of the Local and the Global Revisited
• Growing Up in the Great Recession: Revisiting the Restructuring of Gender, Schooling, and Work
• Globalization, Adult Education, and Development
• National Case Studies of Globalization Impacts
• Globalization in Japan: Education Policy and Curriculum
• Global Encounters of the Universal and the Particular in Educational Policies in Mexico 1988–2006
• The Impacts of Globalization on Education in Malaysia
• The Consequences of Global Mass Education: Schooling, Work, and Well-being in EFA-era Malawi
• Globalization and Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Narrowing of Education’s Purpose
• “Still Hanging off the Edge”: An Australian Case Study of Gender, Universities, and Globalization
• Index
• About the Editors and Contributors