Advocates a return to liberal models of education, arguing that the approach to geography being promoted for schools fundamentally undermines the educational value of the subject, and the freedom of young people to shape the world in which they live.
Advocates a return to liberal models of education, arguing that the approach to geography being promoted for schools fundamentally undermines the educ...
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 Academic subject-based knowledge has been cast as elitist and outdated for a rapidly-changing world.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...
Through the language of global learning, education is being reformed by corporations, political activists, and policy makers. Academic subject-base...
