The False Promise of Global Learning: Why Education Needs Boundaries

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

Through the language of global learning, education is being reformed by corporations, political activists, and policy makers. Academic subject-based knowledge has been cast as elitist and outdated for a rapidly-changing world. The curriculum has been colonized in the name of teaching skills and attitudes for the global market and global citizenship. Can young ...