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Globalization and Education
Series: Routledge Key Ideas in Education
Globalization and Education provides a critical introduction to various theories of globalization and the implications they are assumed to have for educational policy and practice. Using the current global financial crisis as a backdrop, internationally renowned author Fazal Razvi examine a series...
To Be Published August 31st 2012 by Routledge
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World Yearbook of Education 2008
Geographies of Knowledge, Geometries of Power: Framing the Future of Higher Education
Series: World Yearbook of Education
This volume examines higher education in globalized conditions through a focus on the spatial, historic and economic relations of power in which it is embedded. Distinct geometries of power are emerging as the knowledge production capability of universities is increasingly globalized. Changes in...
Published March 24th 2012 by Routledge
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Globalizing Education Policy
Rizvi and Lingard's account of the global politics of education is thoughtful, complex and compelling. It is the first really comprehensive discussion and analysis of global trends in education policy, their effects - structural and individual - and resistance to them. In the enormous body of...
Published August 10th 2009 by Routledge
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World Yearbook of Education 2008
Geographies of Knowledge, Geometries of Power: Framing the Future of Higher Education
Series: World Yearbook of Education
This volume examines higher education in globalized conditions through a focus on the spatial, historic and economic relations of power in which it is embedded. Distinct geometries of power are emerging as the knowledge production capability of universities is increasingly globalized. Changes in...
Published December 21st 2007 by Routledge
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Youth Moves
Identities and Education in Global Perspective
Series: Critical Youth Studies
This fascinating collection of original essays seeks to address the possibilities and dangers of young people's transnational, commodified identities; how society and educational institutions might respond to these new identities; and the consequences for democratic practices and the public sphere....
Published August 1st 2007 by Routledge
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Educational Policy and the Politics of Change
Governments around the world are trying to come to terms with new technologies, new social movements and a changing global economy. As a result, educational policy finds itself at the centre of a major political struggle between those who see it only for its instrumental outcomes and those who see...
Published February 12th 1997 by Routledge