Education for Diversity: Making Differences (Monitoring Change in Education) - Hardcover

Stables, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754633780 ISBN 13: 9780754633785

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003

Synopsis

Certain social and cultural changes have problematized many of the assumptions that underpinned educational thinking in the 20th century. These can be grouped under three broad headings: individualization, globalization and the ecological challenge. Each of these has potentially profound implications for education that have been little explored. Rising to the challenge, this volume examines individualization in relation to changing attitudes to childhood and the positioning and identity development of students within educational "markets". It discusses globalization from several crucial perspectives, including the reduced sovereignty of the nation state and the problematizing of notions of distance and proximity. The ever-increasing environmental crisis is considered in terms of the possibilities for education for sustainable development. The author adopts a pragmatic approach, exploring the supremacy of individual and collective "readings" of the world and divulging his views on whether education is capable of determining the future in predefined ways.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754633780
• ISBN 13: 9780754633785
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160