Globalizing Education, Educating the Local: How Method Made us Mad

by Ian Stronach

This book 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' mimic rather than meet 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'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415619122
• ISBN13: 9780415619127
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"