Carlos Alberto Torres

Education and Neoliberal Globalization

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume by noted critical education scholar Carlos Alberto Torres takes up the question of how structural changes in schooling and the growing impacts of neoliberalism and globalization affect social change, national development, and democratic educational systems throughout the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 213g
• ISBN-13: 9780415536714
• ISBN-10: 0415536715
• Artikelnr.: 54572497

Autorenporträt

Carlos Alberto Torres is Professor of Social Sciences and Comparative Education at the Graduate School of Education, UCLA.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Introduction: Social Theory and Education: Against Neoliberal
Globalization. Part I: A Critique of Neoliberal Globalization 1.
Globalizations and Education 2. The Banking Education of the World Bank:
Expert Knowledge, External Assistance and Educational Reform in the Age of
Neoliberalism: A Critique of the World Bank 3. No Child Left Behind: A
BrainChild of Neoliberalism and American Politics Part II: From Critique to
Utopia: Alternatives to Neoliberal Globalization 4. Education, Teachers
Unions and the State: The Theses of Lisbon. 5. The Political Pedagogy of
Paulo Freire. 6. Critical Social Theory and Educational Research 7.
Globalizations, Education and Transformative Social Justice Learning: A
Preliminary Draft of a Theory of Marginality Part III: Biography as a Genre
of Political Pedagogical Struggle 8. Education, Power and Personal
Biography: An Interview with Carlos Alberto Torres by Armando Alcántara
Santuario. Notes. Bibliography. Index.