Globalisms and Power
Iberian Education and Curriculum Policies
Published on 24. July 2012
Book
Hardback
251 pages
978-1-4331-1554-7 (ISBN)
Description
Globalisms and Power examines the effects neoliberal globalization is having on Spanish and Portuguese educational and curriculum policies and practices. The book dissects the nexus between globalization (or globalisms) and power under a global policy momentum, and analyzes how neoliberal globalization strategies eagerly led by nongovernmental institutions determine the educational agenda in each nation. Both Portugal and Spain were subjugated by military dictatorships for more than four decades: their education systems were laced with an authoritarian, militaristic, racist, and xenophobic ideology. Both countries' secular authoritarian and conservative religious traditions are now dangerously entangled with the demands of neoliberal ideologies.
Shedding light on how education and curriculum policies and practices are determined and how they, in turn, determine the dynamics of ideological production in society, this book unmasks the massive artillery borrowed from the private sector to fix public education and lays bare the fact that nothing is natural, normal, or inevitable in this corporate global momentum.
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<<Joao M. Paraskeva and Jurjo Torres Santome's edited collection Globalisms and Power: Iberian Educational and Curriculum Policies, is an insightful and timely critique of the diverse and destructive ways in which neoliberalism has penetrated the heart of education and curriculum policy and practice.>> (Susan L. Robertson, University of Bristol, UK) <<Joao M. Paraskeva and Jurjo Torres Santome's edited collection Globalisms and Power: Iberian Educational and Curriculum Policies, is an insightful and timely critique of the diverse and destructive ways in which neoliberalism has penetrated the heart of education and curriculum policy and practice.>> (Susan L. Robertson, University of Bristol, UK)More details
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João M. Paraskeva | Jurjo Torres Santomé
Globalisms and Power
Iberian Education and Curriculum Policies
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07/2012
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Persons
João M. Paraskeva is Associate Professor of Social and Educational Policy, and Curriculum Theory and senior researcher at the Center for Policy Analysis at the School of Education, Public Policy and Civic Engagement at UMass Dartmouth. His latest book is Conflicts in Curriculum Theory. Challenging Hegemonic Epistemologies (2011).
Jurjo Torres Santomé is Professor of Curriculum Studies and Education Policy at the University of Corunha, Spain. He has published comprehensively in the area of educational policy, curriculum and evaluation.
Content
Contents: Joao M. Paraskeva/Jurjo Torres Santome: Introduction: Pouring Old Philosophical Wine into New Ideological Bottles: Globalisms and the Rebooting of Mankind's Revolution - Boaventura de Sousa Santos: Globalizations - Rafael Feito Alonso: Secondary Education in Spain - Joao Formosinho/Joaquim Machado: Democratic Governance of Public Mass Schools in Portugal - Gloria Braga Blanco/Jose Luis San Fabian Maroto: Crisis and Trends in Spanish Universities: The Bologna Process, Year Zero - Joao Menelau Paraskeva: Bologna Process(ors): Knowing Very Well What They Are Doing, but Still Doing It - Jose Gimeno Sacristan: The Professional Career for Teachers - Maria Alfredo Moreira/Flavia Vieira: Preservice Teacher Education in Portugal: The Transformative Power of Local Reform - Jose Felix Angulo/Cesar Bernal: ICT as a Discourse of Salvation - Lia Raquel Oliveira: National Technology Plan for Education and Public Schooling: Myths, Limits, and False Promises - Jose Bravo Nico/Lurdes Pratas Nico: Official Discourses in the Educational Systems: Competencies - The New Curriculum Password? Juan Bautista Martinez Rodriguez: Competencies: The Key to the New Curriculum - Miguel Lopez Melero: Disability and Education: Transforming Difficulties into Possibilities - Jurjo Torres Santome: Curricular Tensions and the Struggle for Justice in Neoliberal Times - Cathryn Teasley: Deconstructing Discourses on Racism in Educational Contexts in Spain: Along a Continuum of Racialization, New and Old - Jaime Riviere/Mariano Fernandez Enguita: Social Class and Education in Spain - Ana Sanchez Bello: Gendered Agenda in Education.