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.
Author(s): David Coulby
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 312
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 9
Series Editors' Introduction......Page 12
Introduction......Page 13
Part I Globalization and the Knowledge Economy......Page 30
1 The Knowledge Economy......Page 31
2 The knowledge economy......Page 42
Part II Tradition and modernity......Page 59
3 The survival of nationalism in a globalized system......Page 60
4 Education, national identity and religion in Japan in an age of globalization......Page 85
Part III Globalization and education policy......Page 107
5 Travelling and embedded policy......Page 108
6 Europeanization and education policy......Page 118
7 Swedish, European, global......Page 134
8 Globalizing differences......Page 149
9 Teaching and the globalization of knowledge......Page 157
Part IV Globalization and nationalism......Page 170
10 Globalization and the narrative of civilization......Page 171
11 Globalized history in a nationalist context......Page 188
12 The global and the national......Page 209
13 Negotiating nation......Page 221
14 Cultural relativism and cultural imperialism in a globalized economy and monopolar polity......Page 237
Index......Page 250
