Philosophy of Education in the Era of Globalization

by Yvonne Raley

• ISBN13: 9780203871119
• ISBN10: 0203871111
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-12-04
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Rather than our having formed a global community, today s society is more fragmented than ever. In light of this, education faces some formidable new challenges. The authors of this collection of essays explore these challenges, and suggest some novel ways of dealing with them.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Education in a Globalized Society

How Should We Educate Students Whose Cultures Frown upon Rational Disputation?: Cultural Difference and the Role of Reason in Multicultural Democratic Education

Can Liberals Take Their Own Side in an Argument?

Literacy and Citizenship: Tradition, Reason, and Critique in Democratic Education

After All, How Small is the World: Global Citizenship as an Educational Ideal

Education for Global Citizenship and Survival

New Pedagogical Approaches

Why They Hate Us: A Pedagogical Proposal

Global Aspirations for Gender Equality in Education: What Kind of Pedagogy?

"Let Us Now Praise...": Rethinking Role Models and Heroes in an Egalitarian Age

Moral and Religious Education

Privilege, Wellbeing, and Participation in Higher Education

In Defense of Multiculturalism

Children's Autonomy and Symbolic Clothing in Schools: Help or Hindrance?

Global Religious Education

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