Effects of Globalization on Education Systems and Development

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Issues of Development in a Globalized World

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. From Right to Education to Rights in Education

      • Xinyi Wu, Macleans A. Geo-Jaja

      Pages 3-21

   3. Employment, Democratic Citizenship and Education

      • Salim Vally, Enver Motala

      Pages 23-36

   4. The Problem of Underdevelopment and Perspectives on Transformative Development

      • Nazia Bano

      Pages 37-58

   5. Policy Transfer for Educational Development

      • Xavier Rambla

      Pages 59-75

3. The Problematic Effects of Globalization on Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. How Higher Education Systems in Asia-Pacific Respond to the Challenges Posed by Globalization

      • Nicholas Sun-keung Pang

      Pages 79-92

   3. The Tortuous Path of Educational Decentralization in Mexico

      • Carlos Ornelas

      Pages 93-108

   4. Privatization and Marketing of Higher Education in Mexico

      • Angélica Buendía Espinosa

      Pages 109-130

   5. Education, Knowledge and the Righting of Wrongs

      • Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti

      Pages 131-141

4. Back Matter

   Pages 143-147

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With its comprehensive coverage and quality this provocative book is concerned with the future of developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. By providing in-depth analysis of the economic, social and educational challenges of emerging states it offers an alternative roadmap to development. The authors in this collection substantiate the notion that emerging states often do not participate in policy choices related to their development when faced with universalization of curriculum and internationalization of education. The authors make explicit the direct and indirect effects of globalization on educational systems, social equity, and the path of development. In demonstrating the impact of neoliberalism or market-based reforms on the developing world, the authors show that education without human rights is vulnerable to negative forces of globalization and internationalization. The message of the book is quite pessimistic about possibilities towiden the economic space or increase freedom, unless development cooperation is made possible by “Helping People Help Themselves” as suggested by David Ellerman. The authors note that in the past, the issue of emerging states as an appendage to the world economy was a fundamental question related to colonialism, but now has become a question of imperialism which needs to be examined when considering the current patterns of development.   

• Globalization
• Education poverty
• Neoliberalism
• Social involution
• Human rights
• Participation

• Brigham Young University, USA

  MacLeans A. Geo-JaJa

• University of Western Ontario, Canada

  Suzanne Majhanovich

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