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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821260503321

Titolo

Global crises, social justice, and education / / edited by Michael W. Apple

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-17277-3

1-135-17278-1

1-282-97446-7

9786612974465

0-203-86144-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AppleMichael W

Disciplina

370.115

Soggetti

Education and globalization

Education and state

Education - Social aspects

Social justice

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Global Crises, Social Justice, and Education; CHAPTER 2 New Literacies and New Rebellions in the Global Age; CHAPTER 3 From the Rightist "Coup" to the New Beginning of Progressive Politics in Japanese Education; CHAPTER 4 Israel/Palestine, Unequal Power, and Movements for Democratic Education; CHAPTER 5 Popular Education Confronts Neoliberalism in the Public Sphere: The Struggle for Critical Civil Society in Latin America; CHAPTER 6 Afterword on Global Crises, Social Justice, and Education; Author Biographies; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Education cannot be understood today without recognizing that nearly all educational policies and practices are strongly influenced by an increasingly integrated international economy. Reforms in one country have significant effects in others, just as immigration and population tides from one area to another have tremendous impacts on what counts as official knowledge and responsive and effective education. But what are the realities of these global crises that so many people are



experiencing and how do their effects on education resonate throughout the world?Global Crises