Power, voice and the public good schooling and education in global societies /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Hopson, Rodney K. (Rodney Kofi), Yeakey, Carol Camp, Boakari, Francis Musa
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2008.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed.
• Σειρά: Advances in education in diverse communities ; v. 6.
• Θέματα: Education and globalization.; Education > Social aspects.; School/community relations & school/home relations.; Educational strategies & policy.; Education > Multicultural Education.; Education > Research.

Three themes underpin the tripartite structure of "Power, Voice, and the Public Good", including attention to the definitional and theoretical underpinnings of globalization; the ubiquitous nature and topical display of globalization; and, the possibilities of understanding, redefining and...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface / Carol Camp Yeakey
• Introduction / Rodney K. Hopson, Carol Camp Yeakey, Francis Musa Boakari
• Globalization, education and the trouble with peace / Antoinette Errante
• Neoliberalism versus social justice: a view from Canada / Reva Joshee
• The cost of education for some: educating illegals in the U.S. / David Urias
• The effects of the neo-liberal agenda on education in some African countries / Birgit Brock-Utne
• Schools as markets: bilking the young and powerless / Judith Brooks-Buck
• What to teach our global citizens: applying transnational civics frameworks in four post-communist states / Alison Price-Rom
• Schooling and education for the San (Ju/'hoansi) in Namibia: between a rock of colonialism and the hard place of globalization / Rodney K. Hopson, Jennifer Hays
• Globalization from above, globalization from below: mechanisms for social disparity and social justice in higher education / Erin Kimura-Walsh, Walter R. Allen
• Globalization, knowledge economy and the emergence of private universities in Sub-Saharan Africa / Kingsley Banya
• The globalisation of higher education: assessing the response of the University of the West Indies / Meagan Sylvester
• Learning to get ahead in a global society: postsecondary access of people of color in the U.S. / Eugene L. Anderson, Bryan Cook
• International education in a global context / David Urias
• Impact of Japanese colonial legacy on globalization of Korean education / Kim Hyunsook Song
• Globalization, education, and cultural change in the Navajo nation: snapshots of situated appropriation and adaptive intelligence in the U.S. southwest / Edward J. Brantmeier
• Globalization's strategic union: decentralization, efficiency, and the implications for educational governance in Spain / Laura C. Engel
• Thailand and globalization: the state reform utilities of Buddhism, culture, and education and the social movement of socially and spiritually engaged alternative education / Michael E. Jones
• The centrality of context in the development of the commonwealth teacher recruitment protocol: relevance for international teacher migration / Kimberly Ochs
• From producing citizens to producing managers: education in a globalized world / Adeela Arshad-Ayaz.