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Globalizing Education, Educating the Local - How Method Made us Mad (Paperback): Ian Stronach Globalizing Education, Educating the Local - How Method Made us Mad (Paperback)
Ian Stronach
R1,466 Discovery Miles 14 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Globalizing Education, Educating the Local - How Method Made us Mad (Hardcover): Ian Stronach Globalizing Education, Educating the Local - How Method Made us Mad (Hardcover)
Ian Stronach
R4,630 Discovery Miles 46 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Don't Touch! - The Educational Story of a Panic (Hardcover, New): Heather Piper, Ian Stronach Don't Touch! - The Educational Story of a Panic (Hardcover, New)
Heather Piper, Ian Stronach
R3,913 R1,553 Discovery Miles 15 530 Save R2,360 (60%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first book in the UK to explore the problems involved in 'touching' children in an educational environment, the book uses real-life examples taken from Heather Piper's ground-breaking research into the mentality of today's risk culture, and highlights a maddening state of affairs in which ordinary well-meaning professionals feel they cannot offer even very young children with basic levels comforting or affection.

This fascinating and long-overdue book examines the 'no-touch' pandemic in early years settings, primary and secondary schools today making use of extensive interviews with practitioners, parents and pupils alike, which:

  • outline the general confusion experienced by many in knowing if, when and how to touch and the more recent backlash by some who attempted to buck the trend
  • suggest why this issue is important now (for example, at a time when men are being encouraged to work in early years settings)
  • consider explanations such as panic, risk, society and fear.

This book also examines and explains where the law stands on these issues, and keeps its key focus on practice throughout; representing an unsensationalized and sensible approach to an issue that is the source to so much professional anxiety, and will be welcomed by the entire teaching profession.

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