The False Promise of Global Learning: Why Education Needs Boundaries - Softcover

Standish, Alex

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1441155910 ISBN 13: 9781441155917

Publisher: Continuum, 2012

Synopsis

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 Academic subject-based knowledge has been cast as elitist and outdated for a rapidly-changing world.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.

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About the Author

Alex Standish is a Senior Lecturer in Geography Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK, and fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. As well as teaching PGCE, Teach First and Master’s in Education students at UCL Institute of Education, he works in an advisory capacity for the Department for Education, the Mayor’s Office, Department for International Trade, Cambridge Examinations, as well as several London schools with respect to curriculum and teacher education. Standish previously taught at Western Connecticut State University, USA. Together with Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, he co-edited What Should Schools Teach? Disciplines, Subjects and the Pursuit of Truth.

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441155910
• ISBN 13: 9781441155917
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216