Table of Contents

Contents: Preface. The Globalization of Schooling and Pedagogy: The Bolshevik Revolution, John Dewey and Progressive Education, China. The Education of Revolutionaries: Ho Chi Minh and Mao Zedong. Schooling and Cultural Wars: Stakhanovite Workers and the American Way. Schooling Brainpower: China, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Education for Cultural Revolution. Wars of Liberation and Formal Schooling: India, Africa, the Middle East, Indonesia, and Korea. The Educational Security State: China, Japan, the United States, and the European Union. Conclusion: The Triumph of the Industrial-Consumer Paradigm and English as the Global Language.

About the Author

Joel Spring

Reviews

"In this critique and call to arms, Spring (Queens College, City Univ. of New York) contrasts schools in an 'educational security state' with 'progressive education'. The author concludes that the industrial-consumer paradigm for schooling has triumphed over education that searches for human happiness, is environmentally sensitive, empowers people as actors in the reconstruction of society, and uses the traditional knowledge of indigenous people. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and higher."
—CHOICE"Pedagogies of Globalization is a profoundly important work...In articulating the failure of today's educational systems to serve the human needs of people worldwide, Pedagogies of Globalization is an incisive call for fundamental, social, political, and economic change." --James W. Tollefson, International Christian University, Tokyo, International Multilingual Research Journal

"In this critique and call to arms, Spring (Queens College, City Univ. of New York) contrasts schools in an ‘educational security state’ with ‘progressive education, [concluding] that the industrial-consumer paradigm for schooling has triumphed over education that searches for human happiness, is environmentally sensitive, empowers people as actors in the reconstruction of society, and uses the traditional knowledge of indigenous people….Recommended." – CHOICE, September 2006, Vol. 44, No. 01"... it is a 'good read,' like a mystery novel that makes you want to jump to the last chapter to see where the author is leading... we are grateful to Joel Spring for writing it." - Sherry McCarthy & Glenn Hookstra, PsycCRITIQUES