Imagining the Future of Global Education: Dreams and Nightmares

ISBN-13: 9781138090309 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 212 str.

Yong Zhao; Brian Gearin

Opis

Imagining the Future of Global Education examines the Grand Educational Narrative (GEN) and the major institutions that shape and disseminate it. The book focuses on national visions of education and the imaginary futures that nations seek to make reality and critiques how frequently dreams of upward mobility turn into nightmares.

Spis treści

Introduction Part One: What Dreams Are Made Of  1. Education and the American Dream: Hoping One Black Box Holds the Key to the Other  2. Multiple Spheres of Influence: Who Influenced Australia’s Education Revolution?  3. Not All GERMS Make You Sick: Education Reform in Brazil  Part Two: A Dream within a Dream  4. First to the Finnish Line  5. Can Qatar Buy Sustainable Educational Excellence?  6. Educating for the Chinese Dream(s)  Part Three: Keeping Dreams from becoming Nightmares  7. Guarding the Past or Inventing the Future: Education Reforms in East Asia  8. Educating for Nationalism in an Age of Educating for Economic Growth  9. Education in the Shadow of Superintelligence