The world before us: reappraising globalization in education in the tumult of contemporary change
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2020
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Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
Abstract
In reassessing globalization, contributors to this Special Issue collectively note the swirling,
unstable set of forces that have followed in the wake of globalizing processes
visited upon twenty-first century societies and their educational systems in the past
few decades. As such, they write against dominant social science and policy understanding
of globalization that insists on its unifying and universalizing tendency grounded in
the affordances of the technological sublime of highspeed Internet, speeded-up communications
and transportation putatively linking up the four corners of the globe and
erasing boundaries of the North-South divide (Friedman, 2005). Particularly as educators,
contributors insist that globalization is not an abstract or universalizing set of processes of
time-space compression that absorb more and more of human reality into a singular homogenous
space but is instead profoundly discriminatory and asymmetrical in its impact
and effects. They maintain that globalization is now placing tremendous pressure on
local settings and institutions such as schools and universities, on the very nature of intellectual
and pedagogical processes, and on the social subjects and lived communities
formed in these domains.
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World, Globalization, Education
Citation
Koeli Goel , Xiuying Cai , Susan Ogwal , Adrian Wong , Laura C. Engel & Cameron McCarthy (2020): The world before us: reappraising globalization in education in the tumult of contemporary change, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2020.1836744