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Education and Training in a Globalized World Society: Conforming – Resistance – Ego-boosting

Authors: Renate Kock
ISBN: 9783631544297
Binding: Paperback
Year: 2006
Pages: 259
Size: 15 x 21 cm Weight: 335 grams Price: INR 1640.00

Is there a pedagogy for a globalized world society which guarantees a successful school education? Research into this question seems topical and constructive against the background of the PISA-Studies and their results. The author examines the different paradigms of pre-modern pedagogy, the pedagogy of the secular Modern and the Post-Modern. Taking India as an example, the models of Tagore and Ghandi, current reform-projects in the south-west of the country and education and training-concepts of a society of people who understand themselves as global are investigated. In the conclusion, the author presents ten summarized theses on how education and training should gauge the effects of a global social change on their working conditions.

John Richards

John Richards is an economist and a professor in the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University, and a scholar-in-residence at the C.D. Howe Institute.

Manzoor Ahmed

Manzoor Ahmed is professor emeritus at BRAC University, Chair of Bangladesh Early Childhood Development Network (BEN), and Vice Chair of Campaign for Popular Education (CAMPE).

Shahidul Islam

Shahidul Islam served as Senior Education Advisor to USAID and is currently a consultant on education reform projects in South Asia.

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed [foreword]

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed was the founder of BRAC, one of the world's largest non-governmental organizations.