The False Promise of Global Learning: Why Education Needs Boundaries

by Alex Standish

Book Overview

Through the language of global learning, education is being reformed by corporations, political activists, and policy makers. Academic subject-based knowledge has been cast as elitist and outdated for a rapidly-changing world. The curriculum has been colonized in the name of teaching skills and attitudes for the global market and global citizenship. Can young people effectively contribute to society without an education in academic knowledge?

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441155910
• ISBN13: 9781441155917
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"