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The False Promise of Global Learning

Author : Alex Standish
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441163379
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The False Promise of Global Learning written by Alex Standish and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Through the language of global learning, education is being reformed by corporations, political activists, and policy makers. Academic subject-based knowledge has been cast as elitist and outdated for a rapidly-changing world. The curriculum has been colonized in the name of teaching skills and attitudes for the global market and global citizenship. Can young people effectively contribute to society without an education in academic knowledge? Alex Standish argues that we can only educate children about the world if we are clear about the boundaries that provide education with its moral worth. These include the boundaries between: education and political activity, public and private realms, education and training, theoretical and everyday knowledge, communities, and subject disciplines. The False Promise of Global Learning demonstrates that the nature and purpose of education has become confused with social, economic, political, and therapeutic aims, and that control over the curriculum has been taken away from teachers and communities. This is a hard-hitting work that will resonate with all who have a stake in how - and why - we educate our children.

The False Promise of Global Learning

Author : Alex Standish
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441155910
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The False Promise of Global Learning written by Alex Standish and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an informed and impassioned critique of the movement for international and global education in schools.

Global Education in Europe Revisited

Author : Helmuth Hartmeyer
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3830985274
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Global Education in Europe Revisited written by Helmuth Hartmeyer and published by Waxmann Verlag. This book was released on 2016 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Education is an area of policy, practice, research and educational advocacy. It is an umbrella term that encompasses a variety of areas with differing terminologies: development education, human rights education, education for sustainable development, education for global citizenship. Global Education has become increasingly central to education policy and practice. With this book GENE - Global Education Network Europe - marks 15 years of its work, networking policymakers for increased and improved Global Education in Europe. The book explores key issues in contemporary Global Education in Europe: issues of national strategy, of structure development, of policy learning and engagement within education systems. It outlines challenges in research, practice, policy and conceptual development, through detailed analysis of national and international case studies. The book will be of use to policymakers, educationalists, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of education, international development, human rights and sustainability. GENE intends it as a contribution to the ongoing dialogue in this field, towards the day when all people in Europe - in solidarity with peoples globally - might have access to quality Global Education.

Fail U.

Author : Charles J. Sykes
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250091764
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Fail U. written by Charles J. Sykes and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cost of a college degree has increased by 1,125% since 1978—four times the rate of inflation. Total student debt has surpassed $1.3 trillion. Nearly two thirds of all college students must borrow to study, and the average student graduates with more than $30,000 in debt. Many college graduates under twenty-five years old are unemployed or underemployed. And professors—remember them?—rarely teach undergraduates at many major universities, instead handing off their lecture halls to cheaper teaching assistants. So, is it worth it? That’s the question Charles J. Sykes attempts to answer in Fail U., exploring the staggering costs of a college education, the sharp decline in tenured faculty and teaching loads, the explosion of administrative jobs, the grandiose building plans, and the utter lack of preparedness for the real world that many now graduates face. Fail U. offers a different vision of higher education; one that is affordable, more productive, and better-suited to meet the needs of a diverse range of students—and one that will actually be useful in their future careers and lives.

Losing the Long Game

Author : Philip H. Gordon
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250217040
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Losing the Long Game written by Philip H. Gordon and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign Affairs Best of Books of 2021 "Book of the Week" on Fareed Zakaria GPS Financial Times Best Books of 2020 The definitive account of how regime change in the Middle East has proven so tempting to American policymakers for decades—and why it always seems to go wrong. "It's a first-rate work, intelligently analyzing a complex issue, and learning the right lessons from history." —Fareed Zakaria Since the end of World War II, the United States has set out to oust governments in the Middle East on an average of once per decade—in places as diverse as Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan (twice), Egypt, Libya, and Syria. The reasons for these interventions have also been extremely diverse, and the methods by which the United States pursued regime change have likewise been highly varied, ranging from diplomatic pressure alone to outright military invasion and occupation. What is common to all the operations, however, is that they failed to achieve their ultimate goals, produced a range of unintended and even catastrophic consequences, carried heavy financial and human costs, and in many cases left the countries in question worse off than they were before. Philip H. Gordon's Losing the Long Game is a thorough and riveting look at the U.S. experience with regime change over the past seventy years, and an insider’s view on U.S. policymaking in the region at the highest levels. It is the story of repeated U.S. interventions in the region that always started out with high hopes and often the best of intentions, but never turned out well. No future discussion of U.S. policy in the Middle East will be complete without taking into account the lessons of the past, especially at a time of intense domestic polarization and reckoning with America's standing in world.

Mental Penguins

Author : Ivelin Sardamov
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785353438
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Mental Penguins written by Ivelin Sardamov and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Ivelin Sardamov draws on key findings in neuroscience to explain the waning interest in and knowledge of complex social issues in the United States and around the world. Attributing this trend primarily to the effects of information overload, ubiquitous screens and constant access to the internet, Sardamov argues that chronic over-stimulation generated by the current sociotechnological environment fosters addictive tendencies in today's young people.

Left Behind

Author : Sebastian Edwards
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226184803
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Left Behind written by Sebastian Edwards and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political and economic history of Latin America has been marked by great hopes and even greater disappointments. Despite abundant resources—and a history of productivity and wealth—in recent decades the region has fallen further and further behind developed nations, surpassed even by other developing economies in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. In Left Behind, Sebastian Edwards explains why the nations of Latin America have failed to share in the fruits of globalization and forcefully highlights the dangers of the recent turn to economic populism in the region. He begins by detailing the many ways Latin American governments have stifled economic development over the years through excessive regulation, currency manipulation, and thoroughgoing corruption. He then turns to the neoliberal reforms of the early 1990s, which called for the elimination of deficits, lowering of trade barriers, and privatization of inefficient public enterprises—and which, Edwards argues, held the promise of freeing Latin America from the burdens of the past. Flawed implementation, however, meant the promised gains of globalization were never felt by the mass of citizens, and growing frustration with stalled progress has led to a resurgence of populism throughout the region, exemplified by the economic policies of Venezuela’sHugo Chávez. But such measures, Edwards warns, are a recipe for disaster; instead, he argues, the way forward for Latin America lies in further market reforms, more honestly pursued and fairly implemented. As an example of the promise of that approach, Edwards points to Latin America's giant, Brazil, which under the successful administration of President Luis Inácio da Silva (Lula) has finally begun to show signs of reaching its true economic potential. As the global financial crisis has reminded us, the risks posed by failing economies extend far beyond their national borders. Putting Latin America back on a path toward sustained growth is crucial not just for the region but for the world, and Left Behind offers a clear, concise blueprint for the way forward.

The Educated Underclass

Author : Gary Roth
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780745339238
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book The Educated Underclass written by Gary Roth and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's the point of a university education in a world without enough jobs?

The Flickering Mind

Author : Todd Oppenheimer
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Flickering Mind written by Todd Oppenheimer and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 2003 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Mental Penguins

Author : Ivelin Sardamov
Publisher : Iff Books
ISBN 13 : 9781785353420
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book Mental Penguins written by Ivelin Sardamov and published by Iff Books. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sobering look at the ongoing crisis in civic learning and the fatal attraction of information technology.

The Alienation of Fact

Author : Kenneth J. Saltman
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262544369
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Alienation of Fact written by Kenneth J. Saltman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the role of educational privatization and technology in the crises of truth and agency. Today, conspiracy theories run rampant, attacks on facts have become commonplace, and systemic inequities are on the rise as individual and collective agency unravels. The Alienation of Fact explains the educational, technological, and ideological preconditions for these contemporary crises of truth and agency and explores the contradictions and competing visions for the future of education that lie at the center of the problem. Schools are increasingly reimagined as businesses, and high-stakes standardized testing and curricula, for-profit charter schools, and the rise of educational AI put capital and technology at the center of education. Yet even as our society demands measure, data, and facts, politicians and news outlets regularly make unfounded assertions. How should we make sense of the contradictions between the demand for radical data-driven empiricism and the flight from evidence, argument, or theoretical justification? In this critical investigation of the new digital directions of educational privatization—AI education, adaptive learning technology, biometrics, the quantification of play and social emotional learning—and the politics of the body, Saltman shows how the false certainty of bodies and numbers replaces deliberative and thoughtful agency in a time of increasing precarity. A distinctive contribution to scholarship on public school privatization and educational technology, politics, policy, pedagogy, and theory, The Alienation of Fact is a spirited call for democratic education that values creating a society of “thinking people” over capitalistic gains.

The False Promise of Green Energy

Author : Andrew P. Morriss
Publisher : Cato Institute
ISBN 13 : 1935308416
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book The False Promise of Green Energy written by Andrew P. Morriss and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2011 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green energy promises an alluring future---more jobs in a cleaner environment. We will enjoy a new economy driven by clean electricity, less pollution, and, of course, the gratitude of generations to come. There's just one problem: the lack of credible evidence that any of that can occur. --

An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy

Author : Alison Stone
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745638821
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy written by Alison Stone and published by Polity. This book was released on 2007-12-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to offer a systematic account of feminist philosophy as a distinctive field of philosophy. The book introduces key issues and debates in feminist philosophy including: the nature of sex, gender, and the body; the relation between gender, sexuality, and sexual difference; whether there is anything that all women have in common; and the nature of birth and its centrality to human existence. An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy shows how feminist thinking on these and related topics has developed since the 1960s. The book also explains how feminist philosophy relates to the many forms of feminist politics. The book provides clear, succinct and readable accounts of key feminist thinkers including de Beauvoir, Butler, Gilligan, Irigaray, and MacKinnon. The book also introduces other thinkers who have influenced feminist philosophy including Arendt, Foucault, Freud, and Lacan. Accessible in approach, this book is ideal for students and researchers interested in feminist philosophy, feminist theory, women's studies, and political theory. It will also appeal to the general reader.

Immigrant Nations

Author : Paul Scheffer
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745649610
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Immigrant Nations written by Paul Scheffer and published by Polity. This book was released on 2011-06-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A defence of the meaning and function of borders and their necessity in the face of authoritarian attitudes to multiculturalism

Public Diplomacy

Author : Nicholas J. Cull
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745691234
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Public Diplomacy written by Nicholas J. Cull and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New technologies have opened up fresh possibilities for public diplomacy, but this has not erased the importance of history. On the contrary, the lessons of the past seem more relevant than ever, in an age in which communications play an unprecedented role. Whether communications are electronic or hand-delivered, the foundations remain as valid today as they ever have been. Blending history with insights from international relations, communication studies, psychology, and contemporary practice, Cull explores the five core areas of public diplomacy: listening, advocacy, cultural diplomacy, exchanges, and international broadcasting. He unpacks the approaches which have dominated in recent years – nation-branding and partnership – and sets out the foundations for successful global public engagement. Rich with case studies and examples drawn from ancient times through to our own digital age, the book shows the true capabilities and limits of emerging platforms and technologies, as well as drawing on lessons from the past which can empower us and help us to shape the future. This comprehensive and accessible introduction is essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners, as well as anyone interested in understanding or mobilizing global public opinion.

The False Promises of the Digital Revolution

Author : C. A. Bowers
Publisher : Counterpoints
ISBN 13 : 9781433126123
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The False Promises of the Digital Revolution written by C. A. Bowers and published by Counterpoints. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The False Promises of the Digital Revolution examines what currently goes largely unnoticed because of the many important uses of digital technologies. While many people interpret digital technologies as accelerating the global rate of progress, C. A. Bowers focuses attention on how they reinforce the deep and ecologically problematic cultural assumptions of the West: the myth of progress, the substitution of data for different cultural traditions of wisdom, the connections between print and abstract thinking, the myth of individual autonomy, the conduit view of language that hides how words (metaphors) reproduce earlier misconceptions, and a Social Darwinian justification for colonizing other cultures that is now leading to armed resistance - which, in turn, strengthens the ties between corporations, the military, and the computer science industry. The book also investigates how to understand the cultural non-neutrality of digital technologies; how print and the emphasis on data undermine awareness of the tacit information pathways between cultural and natural ecologies; and how to identify educational reforms that will contribute to a more informed public about the uses of digital technologies.

The Flickering Mind

Author : Todd Oppenheimer
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 0812968433
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Flickering Mind written by Todd Oppenheimer and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2004 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark study on the crisis in American education explores the failure of technology to improve schools and students' learning process, looking at both the benefits and the dangers of reliance on technological tools; the decreasing ability of America's student to reason, listen, and empathize; and ways to improve the state of education. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.