Globalisms and Power

Iberian Education and Curriculum Policies

João M Paraskeva editor Jurjo Torres Santomé editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Published:24th Jul '12

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Globalisms and Power examines the effects neoliberal globalization is having on Spanish and Portuguese educational and curriculum policies and practices. The book dissects the nexus between globalization (or globalisms) and power under a global policy momentum, and analyzes how neoliberal globalization strategies eagerly led by nongovernmental institutions determine the educational agenda in each nation. Both Portugal and Spain were subjugated by military dictatorships for more than four decades: their education systems were laced with an authoritarian, militaristic, racist, and xenophobic ideology. Both countries’ secular authoritarian and conservative religious traditions are now dangerously entangled with the demands of neoliberal ideologies.
Shedding light on how education and curriculum policies and practices are determined and how they, in turn, determine the dynamics of ideological production in society, this book unmasks the massive artillery borrowed from the private sector to fix public education and lays bare the fact that nothing is natural, normal, or inevitable in this corporate global momentum.

«João M. Paraskeva and Jurjo Torres Santomé’s edited collection Globalisms and Power: Iberian Educational and Curriculum Policies, is an insightful and timely critique of the diverse and destructive ways in which neoliberalism has penetrated the heart of education and curriculum policy and practice.» (Susan L. Robertson, University of Bristol, UK)
«João M. Paraskeva and Jurjo Torres Santomé’s edited collection Globalisms and Power: Iberian Educational and Curriculum Policies, is an insightful and timely critique of the diverse and destructive ways in which neoliberalism has penetrated the heart of education and curriculum policy and practice.» (Susan L. Robertson, University of Bristol, UK)

ISBN: 9781433115547

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 500g

251 pages