Policies and Pedagogies of Canadian Offshore Schools

2024-07-08 Education

Author : Fei Wang
Release : 2024-07-08
Genre : Education
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Download or read book Policies and Pedagogies of Canadian Offshore Schools written by Fei Wang. This book was released on 2024-07-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the international, geopolitical, policy, institutional, and curricular challenges facing Canadian offshore school programs. Bringing together scholars and practitioners concerned with addressing the pedagogical, organizational, curriculum, and policy aspects of this transnational mode of schooling, it represents a ground-breaking exploration of K-12 offshore schools within the wider contexts of global geopolitics and forms of soft power. The book examines the vulnerability that arises from having to manoeuvre political, social, geopolitical, and economic policy simultaneously in both the host and home-licencing countries. It delves into conflicts within the context of neoliberal economic agendas, neocolonial and geopolitical interests, and social class reproduction within host countries. The book is the first scholarly space that questions how international educational initiatives are affected by emerging global threats, such as the recent Covid pandemic. Additionally, it unpacks the question of citizenship and its intersections with social class, immigration, and sociocultural dynamics. It explores how these intersections forge new paths not only to mobility but also to new configurations of power and new spaces of politics and identity. With a range of reflexive, empirical, and theoretical contributions that cover every aspect of offshore schools, the book reassesses the trope of globalization dominated by Eurocentric perspectives. It decompartmentalizes diverse perspectives and insights on the internationalisation of schooling opportunities, and provides an overview of the challenges and possibilities open to offshore schools in different cultural contexts, making it the first comprehensive body of research on this type of schooling. This book will be of great value to researchers, faculty, scholars, and postgraduate students working across international and comparative education. It will be particularly useful to those interested in the intersections betweeneducation and geopolitically situated forms of soft power.

Canadian Education

2012-10-17 Education

Author : Brenda L. Spencer
Release : 2012-10-17
Genre : Education
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Download or read book Canadian Education written by Brenda L. Spencer. This book was released on 2012-10-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian Education: Governing Practices and Producing Subjects is an absolutely critical volume bridging a number of key areas in Canadian education – classroom politics, schools, teachers’ work, higher education, and much more – with the theoretical contributions of Michel Foucault. The result is illuminating, engaging, and critically provocative. The essays are carefully chosen and utilize Foucauldian concepts such as governmentality, discipline, subjectivity, and genealogy to excellent critical effect. With a skillfully crafted introduction that nicely brings the entire collection into sharp focus, the editors have provided a text that is a must read for critical scholars and students alike. Mona Gleason, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia This excellent text presents a Foucauldian analysis of selected educational practices, contemporary reform initiatives, and current educational policy, in the Canadian context. The authors demonstrate how rich theoretical constructs such as bio-power, governmentality and disciplinary power can illuminate everyday practices and policies, making “the cultural unconscious apparent” (Fouacult, 1989, p. 71). Canadian Education: Governing Practices and Producing Subjects is essentially a hopeful book: it demonstrates the radicalizing role of theory as we try to understand and complicate educational structures and processes. This is an essential text for all those interested in Foucauldian analyses of education and a must read for undergraduate and graduate students in Canadian faculties of education. Anne M. Phelan, University of British Columbia This volume is most useful in the ways in which it achieves a close look and a wide sweep of education policy, its deployment and its effects, as these are embedded in schooling practices, educational strategies, and pedagogy. It offers the ground from which to consider the potential for education to be aimed at the development of a socially just citizenry while also helping to reveal the structures of power and processes of social control that operate within current neoliberal technologies of governmentality. It is against these that reform-minded educators and curriculum and policy developers can set themselves. While theoretically complex and original in its conceptual approach, this book is also practically informative and eminently readable, making it useful to teachers, school administrators, education policy developers, parents, students, and communities at all levels of the schooling spectrum.” Magda Lewis, PhD. Professor and Queen’s National Scholar, Queen’s University, Kingston. Magda Lewis, Ph.D. Professor and Queen’s National Scholar, Queen’s University, Kingston

In the Shadow of Neoliberalism: Thirty Years of Educational Reform in North America

2011-09-10 Education

Author : Liliana Olmos
Release : 2011-09-10
Genre : Education
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Download or read book In the Shadow of Neoliberalism: Thirty Years of Educational Reform in North America written by Liliana Olmos. This book was released on 2011-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization has emerged as one of the key social, political and economic forces of the twenty-first century, challenging national borders, long established institutions of governance and cultural norms and behaviors around the world. Yet how has it affected education? the series explores the complex and multivariate ways in which changing global paradigms have influenced education, democracy and citizenship from Latin America, Europe and Africa to Asia, the Middle East and North America. It seeks to unearth how these changes have manifest themselves in daily classroom experiences for teachers and administrators the world over and how recent events might influence future change.

Third International Handbook of Globalisation, Education and Policy Research

2021-09-17 Education

Author : Joseph Zajda
Release : 2021-09-17
Genre : Education
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Download or read book Third International Handbook of Globalisation, Education and Policy Research written by Joseph Zajda. This book was released on 2021-09-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook presents a global overview of current research in education and education policy reforms during the last decade. It provides an accessible, practical and comparative source of current research that examines the intersecting and diverse discourses of this important issue. It first examines globalisation, education and policy research and reforms in higher education, including coverage of main trends in education and policy reforms globally, as well as specific policy issues such as gender, equity, minorities and human rights. Next, the handbook offers a comparative perspective that evaluates the ambivalent and problematic relationship between globalisation, the state and education reforms globally. It features coverage on curricula issues and education reforms in schools around the world, the curriculum in the global culture, as well as globalisation and education futures, with respect to social justice and human rights. The handbook contributes to a better and a more holistic understanding of the education reforms and research nexus—offering possible strategies for the effective and pragmatic policy planning and implementation at the local, regional and national levels. It will serve as a vital sourcebook of ideas for researchers, practitioners and policy makers in education.

Globalization, Society and Education Policy

2024-08-12 Education

Author : Nicholas Odwar
Release : 2024-08-12
Genre : Education
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Download or read book Globalization, Society and Education Policy written by Nicholas Odwar. This book was released on 2024-08-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2024 in the subject Pedagogy - School System, Educational and School Politics, grade: A, Coventry University (Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation), course: Education, language: English, abstract: The word globalization is often implemented in describing the rising “interdependence” of the world’s economies, cultures as well as populations promoted by the “cross-border” trade in goods and services, technology, and flows of investment, people, and information. It generally defines how trade and technology have made the world become more linked and interdependent place and in its scope, globalization incorporates the economic and social alterations that have emerged as a result. In education, globalization defines the rising mobility of learners and educators across the world, and the desire for the teachers to be more inclusive (Tight, 2021). Globalization of education has assisted in decreasing discrimination, spreading technologies over a broader region, as well as raising awareness of other cultures and languages and allowing people to collaborate easily. This essay practically acknowledges the concept of globalization to comprise set of distinctions by the administration in the interest of the global, national or local development by planning and creating diverse regulations, strategies or policies (Blagorazumnaya, & Trifonova, 2023). In defining the meaning behind a policy, it can be noted that a policy is considered a course or principle of action implemented or planned by a firm or person: The function of a policy in any firm is to offer general guidance concerning the firm’s mission, offer precise guidance toward applying approaches to attain the desired mission, as well as offer a mechanism to regulate conduct of the firm. The policy procedure is often theorized as progressive phases or stages comprising, problem emergence or identification of the issue to be solved by the suggested policy; setting an agenda; construction of the policy also viewed as consideration of policy selections; as well as policy execution and assessment of the policy. It is worth noting that the policy making procedure should as well entail the actions as well as its prospective impacts perfectly (Government of Canada, 2019). In the present globalization era, the value of education has been focused on enhancement of innovation skills, promoting global ties as well as fostering a vibrant economy. The paper focuses on the question: How does the new Canadian policy (International Education Strategy) (IES) strengthens its global education competitive advantage?

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