Bøger i Global Studies in Education serien

This book pays tribute to an intellectual giant. The twenty-one succinct chapters comprising the volume, and the variety of scholars who have authored them, reflect the towering influence of Roger Dale's work in fields such as the Sociology of Education, Globalization and Education Policy Studies, and Comparative and International Education.

Unsettling the Gap: Race, Politics and Indigenous Education takes the global problem of 'Indigenous educational disadvantage' that have culminated in the Australian context in the 'Closing the Gap' policy.

The World's Highest-Scoring Students focuses on how various countries transformed their school systems into the world's leading systems of education.

Education, Assessment, and the Desire for Dissonance aims to address the contentious practice of assessment in schools and universities within a poststructuralist educational paradigm.

The purpose of this book is restore the centrality of pedagogy in governing the ways literary texts are received, experienced, and interpreted by students in the classroom. Utilizing a method of pedagogical criticism, it provides an account of core approaches to teaching literature that have emerged across history and the conceptual values informing these approaches.

Education, Science and Knowledge Capitalism explores the nature of cognitive capitalism, the emerging mode of social production for public education and science and its promise for the democratization of knowledge.

This book focuses on the development of Taiwan's long-standing National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study between 1955 and 2000. The research includes an ethnographic analysis of discourse, investigating the program from two perspectives: the researcher's critical discourse analysis of historical texts, and the narratives provided by program stakeholders.

An invitation to instructors in education, anthropology, women's studies, and labor studies to re-imagine education as praxis for liberation, renewal, and hope. It is an attempt to create pedagogy of shared narrative, place, and politics; to narratively map the injuries of the material, emotional, and displacement, and war on an individual life.

Based on an Afro-Caribbean primary school teacher's experience, this title provides a discourse which extends and illuminates the limitations of the neo-liberal and global rationalizations of the challenges posed to a teacher's practice.

Suitable for courses in sustainability studies, social philosophy, globalization, social justice, food system praxis, sustainability education, political economy, and environmental studies, this title is motivated by the sustainability crisis and energized by the drive for social justice that inspired the Occupy movement.

Brewing Identities is unique in that, while it focuses on the (re)production of a specific kind of ethno-national identity - Irishness - it is simultaneously transnational in scope, as the author maps the trails of products, people and symbolic constructs through a globalised world.

This book illuminates the changing landscape and expediency of international education in global times. Within this larger picture, the book focuses on the educational effects of international encounters, experiences and lessons - the complex processes of learning and subject formation in play during and after one's international/intercultural experience.

The increasing connection among higher education institutions worldwide is well documented. This book details the planning process of a multi-institutional program in engineering between institutions in the US and Singapore as they develop a new model of collaboration.

An investigation of neoliberalism in relation to education policy and its rollback of the Keynesian welfare state. It argues that education is the basis of an open society and is a social welfare right in the merging knowledge economy. It also explores and critiques neoliberalism as the ruling ideological consensus.

Conceptions of Islamic Education

Citizenship and Citizenship Education in a Global Age

Social Justice in Times of Crisis and Hope examines the possibilities and consequences of the relationship between young people, well-being, education and social justice in times of crisis and hope.

Social Justice in Times of Crisis and Hope examines the possibilities and consequences of the relationship between young people, well-being, education and social justice in times of crisis and hope.

The Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1 provides selected works of the major thinkers who have contributed to the discourse on the idea of the university in the German, English, American and French traditions, dating from the establishment of the University of Berlin in 1810.

The Idea of the University: Contemporary Perspectives consists of essays from the leading contemporary scholars of the university across the world.

The Idea of the University: Contemporary Perspectives consists of essays from the leading contemporary scholars of the university across the world.

China's New 21st-Century Realities: Social Equity in a Time of Change examines the new social justice realities in China. Contributors also take on race and ethnicity as a means to understanding that China, like many nations in the world, is becoming increasingly diverse in many areas including religion and gender roles.

The Philosophy of Open Learning provides an overview of current debates and introduces the reader to the overall discourse on open education. The broad range of topics, including Massive Open Online Courses and Open Educational Resources is aimed at demonstrating that open education has emerged as a new principle for organizing higher education.

The Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1 provides selected works of the major thinkers who have contributed to the discourse on the idea of the university in the German, English, American and French traditions, dating from the establishment of the University of Berlin in 1810.

The Philosophy of Open Learning provides an overview of current debates and introduces the reader to the overall discourse on open education. The broad range of topics, including Massive Open Online Courses and Open Educational Resources is aimed at demonstrating that open education has emerged as a new principle for organizing higher education.

China's New 21st-Century Realities: Social Equity in a Time of Change examines the new social justice realities in China. Contributors also take on race and ethnicity as a means to understanding that China, like many nations in the world, is becoming increasingly diverse in many areas including religion and gender roles.

Education has undergone a profound transformation and financial restructuring. This collection of essays by a range of international experts addresses the root causes of this massive change, analyzing the growth of finance capitalism and financialization, as well as the financialization of education and its consequences.

Education has undergone a profound transformation and financial restructuring. This collection of essays by a range of international experts addresses the root causes of this massive change, analyzing the growth of finance capitalism and financialization, as well as the financialization of education and its consequences.

This volume focuses on the question of whether it is appropriate and inevitable that higher education systems are becoming so large and so diverse that the only realistic way they can be analysed is as aggregates of market-like transactions.

This book explores real global issues in the classroom and also offers different innovative instructional strategies that educators have employed while teaching social studies courses. Indeed, this volume is a critical tool to help educators and students to gain a better understanding of globalization and global education.