Globalizing the Educational Project : Making Knowledge in the Postmodern

by IAN STRONACH

• ISBN13: 9780415431125
• ISBN10: 0415431123
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Globalizing Education, Educating the Local offers a critical and deconstructive account of global discourses on education, arguing that these overblown 'hypernarratives' are neither economically, technically nor philosophically defensible. Nor even sane. Their 'mythic economic instrumentalism' mimics rather than meets the economic needs of global capitalism in ways that the Crash of 2008 brings into vivid disarray. They reduce national education to the same 'hollowed out' state as national capitalisms, subject to global pseudo-accountancy and fads. The book calls for a philosophical and methodological revolution, arguing for more transformative narratives that remodel qualitative inquiry, particularly in addressing a more performative rather than representative ideal.

Author Biography

Ian Stronach is Professor of Education at the Faculty of Education, Community and Leisure at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction: writing, education, research	p. 1
Globalizing education: thinking global, acting local	p. 9
Discoursing the global in the national: making Science sexy (and vice versa)	p. 43
Global and local professionalism: the case of teacher and nurse identities	p. 64
Re-locating early professional learning: the 'invention' of teachers	p. 101
The global/local nightmare: Enlightenment and its 'heart of darkness'	p. 127
Localizing method: reflexivity, the picturing of selves, the forging of method	p. 141
Hybridizing discipline, method and writing: this case is not yet blank	p. 160
Educating the local: rethinking word-crashes, concepts, stories, theories, and sensing the new	p. 175
References	p. 195
Index	p. 225
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