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Globalizing What: Education as a Human Right or as a Traded Service?
This article first reviews changes within international law, pointing out the advent of international trade in educational services and noting that negotiations about further liberalization of trade in education are ongoing. Since the majority of countries have not made any … Continue reading
The Globalization of Multicultural Education
Whatever its specific connotations, and there are many, the term “multicultural education” speaks to questions of how school children are taught about their own social identity and the identity of others. As I argue in part one, the logic of … Continue reading
Rallying the Armies or Bridging the Gulf: Questioning the Significance of Faith-Based Educational Initiatives in a Global Age
This article describes the cultural and political context within which one U.S. faith group, the Churches of Christ, operates in public schools in Tanzania. While Churches of Christ does not itself receive funding directly from USAID or the World Bank, … Continue reading
In Fear of International Law
The thesis of this paper is that governments of some otherwise enlightened states are increasingly fearful of acknowledging the restraints imposed on them by existing international law. They are also reluctant to enter into new commitments by way of international … Continue reading
“Glocalizing” Chinese Higher Education: Groping For Stones To Cross the River
Over two and one-half decades have passed since Deng Xiaoping proclaimed that Chinese education must face in “three directions”–toward modernization, the world, and the future. At that time leaders had yet to articulate the driving purpose of reform as the … Continue reading
French and U.S. Modes of Educational Regulation Facing Modernity
Similar principles guide the educational reforms currently taking place in most countries: ensuring that all eligible people can attend school, ensuring that the skills and knowledge imparted are relevant to the real world, ensuring educational institutions are accountable for results … Continue reading
Confronting the Privatization and Commercialization of Academic Research: An Analysis of Social Implications at the Local, National, and Global Levels
This article addresses the impact of privatization on universities in the United States, focusing, in particular, on the effects on the university mission and academic research in the life sciences. Both public and private nonprofit universities have been affected by … Continue reading
Programs for Democratic Citizenship in Mexico’s Ministry of Education: Local Appropriations of Global Cultural Flows
In this paper, I sharply focus my analysis on recent efforts to create and implement programs for democratic citizenship education at the secondary level in Mexico. Drawing on numerous interviews with key Mexican education policymakers and bureaucrats, as well as … Continue reading
Terrorism: The International Response of the Courts
The thesis of this article is that the countries that have done best against terrorism are those that have kept their appreciation of priorities, retained a sense of proportion, questioned, and where possible, addressed the causes of terrorism, and adhered … Continue reading
Science, Globalization, and Educational Governance: The Political Rationalities of the New Managerialism
This paper examines the transformation of educational governance in the era of new public management and the rise of the “enabling state.” Its aim is not simply to critique recent developments, but rather to analyze how power is exercised in … Continue reading
To What Ends: Educational Reform Around the World
Many “reforms”—such as those related to welfare programs in the United States—can be actually seen as “deforms.” These so-called “reforms” have led to increasing impoverishment and lives of misery for many instead of improving the lives of individuals and their … Continue reading
For-Profit Education Service Providers in Primary and Secondary Schooling: The Drive For and Consequences of Global Expansion
Innovations in technology, transportation, and communication during the twentieth century have paved the way for greater global connectedness and interdependence. Economic globalization and democratization have accompanied these trends toward interconnectedness. While these transformations brought vast increases in the exchange of … Continue reading
From a State-Centered Approach to Transnational Openness: Adapting the Hague Convention with Contemporary Human Rights Standards as Codified in the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Parental kidnapping is an increasing problem throughout the world and the social consequences of globalization have made international child abductions more frequent. In the United States alone, the Department of Justice states that 354,100 children are reported to have been … Continue reading
A World of Passions: How to Think About Globalization Now
Recent events have been unkind to a doctrine that defined global economics and politics during the 1990s. That doctrine, often termed “neo-liberalism” or “the Washington Consensus,” was defined by the belief that free markets and international economic integration would lead … Continue reading
Patents and Traditional Medicine: Digital Capture, Creative Legal Interventions, and the Dialectics of Knowledge Transformation
This article examines the debate over the exclusion of indigenous or local knowledge forms from the global intellectual property system, and some of the current attempts to solve this problem. Using the lens of cultural cosmopolitanism, the article highlights important … Continue reading
Toward a World Migratory Regime
Increasing transnationalism challenges the predominant statist treatment of migration and citizenship. Global, indeed cosmopolitan, citizenship offers an alternative to open border policies and global migratory management that focuses on the extent to which political agents are free to move and … Continue reading