Globalization and Education: Integration and Contestation across Cultures

by Nelly P. Stromquist, Karen Monkman, Jill Blackmore (Contribution by), Rosa Nidia Buenfil (Contribution by), Martin Carnoy (Contribution by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461636878
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	09/06/2000
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

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.
Lynne Parmenter is a Principal Lecturer in International Education at the Institute of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University. Until 2010, she spent 17 years teaching in schools and universities in Japan. Her main research interests are in global citizenship education and the negotiation of education policy and practice in the context of globalization.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

International scholars of education, social and cultural studies, economics, and other fields present 17 essays which examine the changes globalization is having on how education is defined, whom it serves, and how it is assessed around the world. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

The book presents noted scholars who share an actor-driven and network-based understanding of globalization. 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.

Gita Steiner-Khamsi

This reissue of Globalization and Education is more than just a second edition, since chapters from the first edition (published in 2000) have been substantially updated and several new chapters added. The editors and many of the contributors have been co-operating on this topic for many years; hence, the book reflects a prolonged extensive contemplation about the complexities of the topic, which undoubtedly contributes to the book’s depth and scope. Consequently, we have an accurate large volume, primarily from the field of comparative education studies, which explains some of the most relevant attributes and characteristics of the subject of included studies, which also sheds light on actual developments on all levels of education.. . .This multifaceted book presents yet another case of a larger cooperative educational study, which proves that the end of the neoliberal epoch is highly desired and as much as possible projected in the area of education. Recalling the tradition of the Enlightenment, one may say that educators and philosophers are again emphatically encouraged to invent humanity anew.

International Review of Education

Nelly P. Stromquist and Karen Monkman have revisited two decades of pedagogical and political debates about the dynamics of the global and the local in education to produce a thorough, lucid, and significant book. 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. Globalization and Education is a treasure trove of the best research and wise thinking that should find its place in the toolbox of educators and scholars trying to understand how global and local dynamics are changing education in the 21st Century.

Gustavo E. Fischman

I welcome the second edition of Globalization and Education: Integration and Contestation Across Cultures. Stromquist and Monkman put together a brilliant constellation of stars of comparative and international education. This book, written by 21 women and four men is full of ideas, concepts, and solid arguments that help us to better understand the dialectic between local cultures and globalization in its relation with educational systems.

Carlos Ornelas

People interested in this arena should read it.

On the Horizon

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.

Comparative Education Review

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.

Steven J. Klees

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.

Canadian Journal of Higher Education

People interested in this arena should read it.

On The Horizon

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.

Canadian Journal Of Higher Education