This volume deals with two major and apparently opposing forces within education and society: globalization and nationalism.
Globalization is often considered in economic terms - of continued growth of international trade and a concentration of wealth in corporate hands - yet it also encompasses technological, political and cultural change. The World Yearbook of Education 2005 explores the role of the education sector in our globalized knowledge economy, and considers the political implications of this in terms of monopolarity and the cultural consequences of homogenization and Americanization.
The other strand of this study - nationalism - remains a persistent force within education and society in all parts of the world, and this volume examines the extent to which it can fuel conflict at all levels through prejudice and intolerance. Concentrating on the epistemological consequences of nationalism, leading international thinkers examine the extent to which it is reflected in the curricula of schools and universities around the world.
Finally, the complex relationship between globalization and nationalism is explored, and contributors explore the part that educational institutions and practices play in forming both agendas. A wide range of perspectives are employed, including post-colonial discourse, classical economics and sociological theory.
Nationalism and globalization are both ongoing processes, and this volume makes a case for the central role of education in both - through its potential to influence change and to act as benevolent force in shaping a global community.
| Introduction : trends in globalization | 1 | |
| 1 | The knowledge economy : technology and characteristics | 23 |
| 2 | The knowledge economy : institutions | 37 |
| 3 | The survival of nationalism in a globalized system | 59 |
| 4 | Education, national identity and religion in Japan in an age of globalization | 89 |
| 5 | Travelling and embedded policy : the case of post-devolution Scotland with the UK | 117 |
| 6 | Europeanization and education policy | 128 |
| 7 | Swedish, European, global | 147 |
| 8 | Globalizing differences : special educational needs, inclusion and the market place | 165 |
| 9 | Teaching and the globalization of knowledge | 175 |
| 10 | Globalization and the narrative of civilization : classical Greece as curricular construct | 193 |
| 11 | Globalized history in a nationalist context : the curricular construction of Greece | 213 |
| 12 | The global and the national : inclusive knowledge and linguistic diversity | 237 |
| 13 | Negotiating nation : globalization and knowing | 252 |
| 14 | Cultural relativism and cultural imperialism in a globalized economy and monopolar polity | 272 |
Overview
This volume deals with two major and apparently opposing forces within education and society: globalization and nationalism.
Globalization is often considered in economic terms - of continued growth of international trade and a concentration of wealth in corporate hands - yet it also encompasses technological, political and cultural change. The World Yearbook of Education 2005 explores the role of the education sector in our globalized knowledge economy, and considers the ...