How Educational Ideologies Are Shaping Global Society - Intergovernmental Organizations, NGOs, Decline of Nation State

Informationen zum Autor Joel Spring Klappentext Examines current educational ideologies and how they are shaping global society. This discussion is placed within the framework of the current decline of education as a function of the nation-state as a result of the growing influence of intergovernmental economic and political organizations (e.g. The United Nations, The World Bank) and international nongovernmental groups (e.g. Greenpeace, Amnesty International) and pressures to educate workers for the global workforce. Zusammenfassung In this book, Joel Spring explores three major international educational ideologies that are shaping global society: neo-liberal educational ideology, human rights education, and environmentalism. He synthesizes and analyzes the effect of these education Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Nationalist Education in the Age of Globalization: Global Workers Carrying Their Nations in Their Hearts; Chapter 2 Schooling Workers for a Global Free Market: The World Bank; Chapter 3 Globalizing Morality: Human Rights Education; Chapter 4 Love the Biosphere: Environmental Ideologies Shaping Global Society; Chapter 5 Educating for a Global Environmental Ethic; Chapter 6 The Future of Education in Global Society;

Product details

• Authors: Helen Spring, Joel Spring, Joel H. Spring, Spring Joel
• Publisher: Erlbaum
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2004
• EAN: 9780805849158
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-4915-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education; Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; EDUCATION / General, Education, Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization