Global Pedagogies Schooling for the Future /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zajda, Joseph. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research ; 12
• Subjects: Education.; Curriculum planning.; International and Comparative Education.; Curriculum Studies.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sociology of Education.; Teaching and Teacher Education.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3617-9

In a postmodern world characterized by flux and uncertainty, parents often view education institutions as a major, if not the only, provider of moral certainties for their children. Yet ironically, as these expectations of schools and their staff have increased, conservative-minded governments have...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword. Preface; Joseph Zajda. Acknowledgements. Introduction. SECTION I: GLOBAL PEDAGOGY: PERSPECTIVES
• 1. Global Pedagogies and Communities of Meaning and Hope: Education in a Time of Global Fragmentation; Svi Shapiro.
• 2. Rethinking Global Education in the 21st Century; Sadiq A. Abdullahi
• 3. Globalisation and Postnational Possibilities in Education for the Future: Rethinking Borders and Boundaries; Stephen David, Nadine Dolby, Fazal Rizvi
• 4. Framing Education for the Future: A Conceptual Synthesis of the Major Social Institutional Forces Affecting Education; Duncan Waite, Lejf Moos, Ciaran Sugrue, Cungang Liu.
• 5. Values, Roles, Visions and Professional Development in the 21st Century: Australian and Japanese Principals Voice their Views; David T. Gamage, Takeyuki.
• 6. When Indigenous and Modern Education Collide in the Global Culture; Alberto Arenas, Iliana Reyes, Leisy Wyman.
• 7. Global Agendas in Special Education: A Critique; Margaret Winzer, Kas Mazurek
• SECTION II: GLOBAL PEDAGOGY: CASE STUDIES
• 8. Global Transformation of a Nordic Learning Society: The Case of Finland; Ari Antikainen.
• 9. Education for Sustainability and the Role of Future-Focus Pedagogy; Caroline Smith
• 10. Sustainable Living by the Bay: Improving Student Engagement in the Science Classroom for the 21st Century; Lyn Carter, Ranjith Dediwalage.
• 11. Preservice female teachers mathematics self-concept and mathematics anxiety: A longitudinal study; Rita M. Johnson, Kenneth H. Smith, Sherrie Carinci
• 12. "Learning to Be" for Tomorrows Schools: A Trans-cultural Dimension in Classroom Pedagogy; Marie-Laure Mimoun-Sorel
• Index.