Globalization and education: integration and contestation across cultures

Preface

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Part I. Conceptual and Methodological Issues

1. Defining Globalization and Assessing its Implications for Knowledge and Education, Revisited / Nelly P. Stromquist / Karen Monkman

2. Globalization, Educational Change, and the National State / Martin Carnoy

3. Globalization and Global Governance in Education / Karen Mundy / Caroline Manion

4. The Productive Plasticity of Rights: Globalization, Education, and Human Rights / Monisha Bajaj

5. "The Girl Effect": U.S. Transnational Corporate Investment in Girls' Education / Kathryn Moeller

6. Globalization and Curriculum Inquiry: Performing Transnational Imaginaries / Noel Gough

7. Globalization and the Social Construction of Reality: Affirming or Unmasking the "Inevitable"? / Catherine A. Odora Hoppers

8. Studying Globalization: The Vertical Case Study Approach / Lesley Bartlett / Frances Vavrus

Part II. Globalization Impacts in Various Educational Sectors

9. Globalization Responses from European and Australian University Sectors / Jan Currie / Lesley Vidovich

10. Globalization of the Community College Model: Paradox of the Local and the Global Revisited / Rosalind Latiner Raby

11. Growing Up in the Great Recession: Revisiting the Restructuring of Gender, Schooling, and Work / Peter Kelly / Jane Kenway

12. Globalization, Adult Education, and Development / Shirley Walters

Part III. National Case Studies of Globalization Impacts

13. Globalization in Japan: Education Policy and Curriculum / Lynne Parmenter

14. Global Encounters of the Universal and the Particular in Educational Policies in Mexico 1988-2006 / Rosa Nidia Buenfil

15. The Impacts of Globalization on Education in Malaysia / Molly N.N. Lee

16. The Consequences of Global Mass Education: Schooling, Work, and Well-being in EFA-era Malawi / Nancy Kendall / Rachel Silver

17. Globalization and Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Narrowing of Education's Purpose / Salim Vally / Carol Anne Spreen

18. "Still Hanging off the Edge": An Australian Case Study of Gender, Universities, and Globalization / Jill Blackmore

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