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Globalizing Education, Educating the Local - How Method Made us Mad (Paperback)
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Globalizing Education, Educating the Local - How Method Made us Mad (Paperback)
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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'
state as national capitalisms, subject to global pseudo-accountancy
and fads. The book calls for a philosophical and methodological
revolution, arguing for more transformative narratives that remodel
qualitative inquiry, particularly in addressing a more performative
rather than representative ideal. The first part of the book aims
to critique, deconstruct and satirise contemporary assumptions
about educational achievement and outputs, the nature of
contemporary educational discourses, and the nature of the
professionalism that sustain them. The second part offers
innovative postmodernist ways of reconstructing a theory and
methodology that aims at 'educating the local' rather than
succumbing to the fantasies of the universal. This is a very timely
book in that the economic crisis re-exposes the mythic nature of
education-economic linkages, putting discourses prefaced on such
'connections' into parallel crisis. Our global educational
discourses have also crashed, and new futures need urgently to be
found. Such a 'turnaround' is both proposed and argued for. The
book will appeal to a wide range of readers who are committed to
educational and cultural change, and who are interested in a new
politics of education. It will have an immediate relevance and
appeal in the UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand in particular.
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