Author: Cameron McCarthy
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820497310
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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As multinational elites vie for economic and cultural dominance, neoliberal socio-economic policies are, in effect, not only reconfiguring political economies, but the ways in which culture is being produced and represented. In light of the global impact of these forms of domination, this collection of informed international scholarship examines world-hegemonic engagements with culture in all spheres of contemporary cosmopolitan life: the personal, the public, the popular, and the institutional.
Author: Eckhardt Fuchs
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 303017168X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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This edited volume reflects on how the “transnational” features in education as well as policies and practices are conceived of as mobile and connected beyond the local. Like “globalization,” the “transnational” is much more than a static reality of the modern world; it has become a mode of observation and self-reflection that informs education research, history, and policy in many world regions. This book examines the sociocultural project that the “transnational turn” evident in historical scholarship of the last few decades represents, and how a “transnational history” shapes how historians construct their objects of study. It does so from a multinational perspective, yet with a view of the different layers of historical meanings associated with the concept of the transnational.
Author: Amy Hodges
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443867616
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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While English has become the lingua franca in science, business, and other fields, scholars still grapple with the implications of its adoption in many other settings and cultures. To what extent should English be introduced and taught in schools around the world? Who “owns” the English language and can therefore shape its structure and aims? What are world Englishes and how can teachers demonstrate them to their students? Is English the language of the oppressor, an imperialist tool, or does global English offer an opportunity for greater understanding and cooperation amongst peoples and cultures? This volume of critical essays explores these and other questions surrounding language, education, and culture in the globalized world. Honoring students’ cultures while trying to prepare them for an uncertain and constantly changing future is the resounding theme of this book. The contributors to this volume are as multi-cultural and multi-faceted as such a volume would demand. The essays include authors and studies from Algeria, India, Iran, Ghana, Germany, Poland, Tunisia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, the United States of America, and Yemen. The perspectives offered in this volume contribute greatly to the ongoing conversations on language, education, and globalization.
Author: Sigrid Weigel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783948205041
Category : Cultural relations
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"This study examines the historical prerequisites and the conceptual implications of foreign cultural policy in the age of global socio-cultural transformation processes for which national departmental policy is no longer suitable. The areas of activity of foreign cultural and educational policy (FCEP) are continuously becoming more and more intertwined with the political culture of dealing with those conflicts which develop through globalisation and a growing cultural diversity within ... An overview of the development of the German FCEP, the analysis of rhetoric, conceptualisation and different cultural concepts are teh starting points for the discussion on a contemporary FCEP that is committed to globarl regulatory objectives ..."--Summary, p. 6."
Author: Tett, Lyn
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447350057
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Neoliberalism has been widely criticised because of its role in prioritising ‘free markets’ as the optimum way of solving problems and organising society. In the field of education, this leads to an emphasis on the knowledge economy to the detriment of wider social and ethical goals in ways that reduce both persons and education to solely economic actors. Drawing on an international range of contexts across informal, adult, school and university settings, this book provides innovative examples that show how neoliberalism in education can be challenged and changed at the local, national and transnational levels in order to foster a more democratic culture.
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Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367529833
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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This edited volume explores diverse perspectives and discourses of curriculum studies contributed by scholars both within and outside the majority world.
Author: John Chi-Kin Lee
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351061607
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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In recent years, there has been increasing attention placed on international and transnational aspects of school and higher education curricula, and the different research approaches and lenses through which these issues are studied. This edited volume explores diverse perspectives and discourses of curriculum studies contributed by scholars both within and outside the "majority world". In addition, it tackles both transnational cross-border endeavours involving national governments and policy measures, and the promises, challenges and failings of those formal relationships. The book consists of three sections. The first section provides an introduction and overviews of transnational education in connection with curriculum studies, schooling and higher education. The second section deals with transnational and international perspectives on curriculum studies, schooling and education. The final, third section highlights transnational and international perspectives on higher education. This timely volume tackles the questions often posed by curriculum scholars and educational researchers around the possibility of a transnational approach to curriculum studies and how (and if) a common set of means can transcend national boundaries and sensitivities. It looks at the common issues and problems across nations that international and transnational curriculum and educational research work could address. This volume will appeal to researchers and policy makers interested in transnational education and curriculum studies.
Author: Jaafar Aksikas
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030253937
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 351
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This edited volume seeks to combine and highlight the theoretical and practical aspects of teaching by exploring and reflecting on the ways in which Cultural Studies is taught and practiced at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, in the US and internationally. Contributors create a space where connections among Cultural Studies practitioners across generations and locations are formed. Because the alliances built by Cultural Studies practitioners in the U.S. and the global north are deeply shaped by the global south/Third World perspectives, this book extends an invitation to teachers and practitioners in and outside of the US, including those who may offer a transnational perspective on teaching and practicing Cultural Studies. This volume promises to be a trailblazing collection of first-rate essays by leading and emerging figures in the field of Cultural Studies.
Author: Sigrid Weigel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783948205041
Category : Cultural relations
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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"This study examines the historical prerequisites and the conceptual implications of foreign cultural policy in the age of global socio-cultural transformation processes for which national departmental policy is no longer suitable. The areas of activity of foreign cultural and educational policy (FCEP) are continuously becoming more and more intertwined with the political culture of dealing with those conflicts which develop through globalisation and a growing cultural diversity within....An overview of the development of the German FCEP, the analysis of rhetoric, conceptualisation and different cultural concepts are teh starting points for the discussion on a contemporary FCEP that is committed to globarl regulatory objectives...."--Summary, p. 6."
Author: Daniel H. Rellstab
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134656831
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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War, migration, and refugeehood are inextricably linked and the complex nature of all three phenomena offers profound opportunities for representation and misrepresentation. This volume brings together international contributors and practitioners from a wide range of fields, practices, and backgrounds to explore and problematize textual and visual inscriptions of war and migration in the arts, the media, and in academic, public, and political discourses. The essays in this collection address the academic and political interest in representations of the migrant and the refugee, and examine the constructed nature of categories and concepts such as ‘war,’ ‘refuge(e),’ ‘victim,’ ‘border,’ ‘home,’ ‘non-place,’ and ‘dis/location.’ Contributing authors engage with some of the most pressing questions surrounding war, migration, and refugeehood as well as with the ways in which war and its multifarious effects and repercussions in society are being framed, propagated, glorified, or contested. This volume initiates an interdisciplinary debate which re-evaluates the relationship between war, migration, and refugeehood and their representations.
