ABSTRACT
Scholarship surrounding global education reform tends to be detached from the local context in which these conditions manifest, and in which the consumer engages. To study the global, we need to return to the local: concepts such as ‘white flight’, homogeneity and heterogeneity, are mutually anchored in the local, as Beck (2002) writes,
. . . Globalization is about globalization. This isn’t true. Globalization is about localization as well. You cannot even think about globalization without referring to specific locations and places. One of the important consequences of the globalization thesis is the recovering of the concept of place . . . Therefore sociology can investigate the global locally.
