Globalizing Education Policies, Pedagogies, and Politics

«...a superb collection of original papers about the ways in which globalization - from above, below and in-between - intersects with the urgent task of rethinking educational policies, pedagogies, and politics. In a world of increasingly coordinated capital, growing movement of people, an oppressive global regime of security, uneven distribution of new technologies, and state educational policies subservient to the logic of the market, the essays in this book seek to develop the philosophical and political resources that might address the deeply worrying trends toward mindless celebration of consumerism and the accentuation of global inequalities. In the face of this pessimism, this somewhat optimistic book is a major contribution in the re-assertion of democratic politics in education.» (Fazal Rizvi, Professor of Education, Department of Education Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
«This rich collection of original essays, organized around the themes of the political economy of education and the production of knowledge and identities, will be of great interest and value to anyone interested in the relationships between globalization and education. It extends and deepens discussions and appreciations of how globalization, conceived as 'complex connectivities', pervades educational transactions of multiple kinds.» (Roger Dale, Professor of Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
«This timely collection of rich and diverse studies of the complex relationship between globalization and education fills an important gap in our understanding of these processes.» (Susan Robertson, Professor of Sociology of Education, University of Bristol, United Kingdom)

The Editors: Michael W. Apple is the John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A former elementary and secondary school teacher and past-president of a teachers union, he has written extensively on the relationship among culture, power, and education. He has been selected as one of the fifty most important authors on education in the twentieth century. Among his award-winning books are Ideology and Curriculum, Education and Power, Teachers and Texts, Official Knowledge, Cultural Politics and Education, Educating the «Right» Way, and The State and the Politics of Knowledge. The twenty-fifth anniversary third edition of his classic Ideology and Curriculum has just been published.
Jane Kenway is Professor of Global Education Studies in the Education Faculty at Monash University, Australia. Her most recent books are Consuming Children: Education-Advertising-Entertainment and Tradition and Innovation: Arts, Humanities and the Knowledge Economy (with Elizabeth Bullen and Simon Robb; Peter Lang, 2004). She is currently working on two co-authored books: Masculinity Beyond the Metropolis and Haunting the Knowledge Economy.
Michael Singh is Professor of Education at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, and convenor of the educational research, leadership, and policy action forum, Green Wired Safe Australia. In addition to being the co-editor of Adult Education @ 21st Century (with Peter Kell and Sue Shore; Peter Lang, 2004), he is also the co-author of Appropriating English (with Peter Kell and Ambigapathy Pandian; Peter Lang, 2002), a study of innovation of the global business of English language teaching.