ABSTRACT
This book explores the impacts on personal and professional, local and global forms of belonging in educational spaces amidst rapid changes shaped by globalization.
Encouraging readers to consider the idea of belonging as an educational goal as much as a guiding educational strategy, this text forms a unique contribution to the field. Drawing on empirical and theoretical analyses, chapters illustrate how educational experience informs a sense of belonging, which is increasingly juxtaposed against a variety of global dynamics including neoliberalism, transnationalism, and global policy and practice discourses. Addressing phenomena such as refugee education, large-scale international assessments, and study abroad, the volume’s focus on ten countries including Japan, Sierra Leone, and the US demonstrates the complexities of globalization and illuminates possibilities for supporting new constructions of belonging in rapidly globalizing educational spaces.
This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in international and comparative education, multicultural education, and educational policy more broadly. Those interested in the sociology of education and cultural studies within education will also benefit from this volume.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|70 pages
Neoliberalism and the Complications of Belonging
chapter 3|17 pages
Teacher or Policy Subject?
chapter 4|15 pages
“Each One Standing on the Other's Head”
part II|57 pages
Transnational Searches for Belonging
chapter 6|18 pages
Adult Education as a Site for Integration?
chapter 7|17 pages
Learning to Transcend the Nation State
part III|74 pages
Effects of Global Policy Discourses on Belonging
chapter 10|16 pages
“I Am a Wicked Somebody”
chapter 11|17 pages
Transcending Colonial Rule and Reimagining Rhodesia's Future
chapter 12|17 pages
The Educational Quality Tribunal and Its Influences on Teachers' Careers
part IV|59 pages
Knowledge and Practice for Global Belonging
chapter 13|19 pages
Global Citizenship Education Is a Verb
chapter 14|18 pages
Educational Territories and Schools that Go Global
chapter 15|20 pages
Innovation in a Time of Making Do
part V|16 pages
Conclusion