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Globalization and education : integration and contestation across cultures / edited by Nelly P. Stromquist and Karen Monkman. [print]

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham, Maryland. : Rowman and Littlefield, (c)2000.Description: xvii, 363 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780847699186
  • 9780847699193
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • LC65.M745.G563 2000
  • LC65
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Contents:
Defining globalization and assessing its implications on knowledge and education Nelly P. Stromquist and Karen Monkman -- Globalization and internationalism: Democratic prospects for world education Phillip W. Jones -- Globalization and educational reform Martin Carnoy -- Educational reform: Who are the radicals? Val D. Rust -- Globalization and curriculum inquiry: Locating, representing, and performing a transnational imaginary Noel Gough -- Globalization and the social construction of reality: Affirming or unmasking the "inevitable"? Catherine A. Odora Hoppers
Alternative responses to globalization from European and South African universities Jan Currie and George Subotzky -- Globalization of the community college model Rosalind Latiner Raby -- Local/global labor markets and the restructuring of gender, schooling, and work Jane Kenway and Peter Kelly -- Globalization, adult education, and development Shirley Walters
Globalization and universities in the Commonwealth Caribbean Anne Hickling-Hudson -- Internationalization in Japanese education: Current issues and future prospects Lynne Parmenter -- Globalization and decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Focus Lesotho William M Rideout, Jr. -- Globalization and educational policies in Mexico, 1988-1994: A meeting of the universal and the particular Rosa Nidia Buenfil -- South African higher education in transition: Global discourses and national priorities Crain Soudien and Carol Corneilse -- Impacts of globalization on education in Malaysia Molly N.N. Lee -- Hanging onto the edge: An Australian case study of women, universities, and globalization Jill Balckmore.
Subject: With increased opportunites for interaction and learning, education around the world is becoming transformed. These essays 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. Topics incl:
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Includes bibliographies and index.

PennsylvaniaRT 1: Conceptual issues -- Defining globalization and assessing its implications on knowledge and education Nelly P. Stromquist and Karen Monkman -- Globalization and internationalism: Democratic prospects for world education Phillip W. Jones -- Globalization and educational reform Martin Carnoy -- Educational reform: Who are the radicals? Val D. Rust -- Globalization and curriculum inquiry: Locating, representing, and performing a transnational imaginary Noel Gough -- Globalization and the social construction of reality: Affirming or unmasking the "inevitable"? Catherine A. Odora Hoppers

PennsylvaniaRT 2: Globalization impacts in various educational sectors -- Alternative responses to globalization from European and South African universities Jan Currie and George Subotzky -- Globalization of the community college model Rosalind Latiner Raby -- Local/global labor markets and the restructuring of gender, schooling, and work Jane Kenway and Peter Kelly -- Globalization, adult education, and development Shirley Walters

PennsylvaniaRT 3: National case studies of globalization impacts -- Globalization and universities in the Commonwealth Caribbean Anne Hickling-Hudson -- Internationalization in Japanese education: Current issues and future prospects Lynne Parmenter -- Globalization and decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Focus Lesotho William M Rideout, Jr. -- Globalization and educational policies in Mexico, 1988-1994: A meeting of the universal and the particular Rosa Nidia Buenfil -- South African higher education in transition: Global discourses and national priorities Crain Soudien and Carol Corneilse -- Impacts of globalization on education in Malaysia Molly N.N. Lee -- Hanging onto the edge: An Australian case study of women, universities, and globalization Jill Balckmore.

With increased opportunites for interaction and learning, education around the world is becoming transformed. These essays 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. Topics incl:

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