Culture in Education and Education in Culture
Tensioned Dialogues and Creative Constructions
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Beschreibung
In a world where the global engagement and international dialogue intensifies, some areas of cultivated knowledge suffer from this dialogue and this has consequences for people and communities. We propose education to be such a case. The global dialogue in education tends to be restricted to and mediated by standardized measurements. Such standards are meant to measure qualities of education and of student behavior and create the sought for condition for normative comparability and competition. The obvious drawback is that cultural variability – in local living as well as in education – is rendered irrelevant.
Are there alternatives? The book insists on maintaining the discussion about education on a global level, but rather than moving towards homogenization and standardization of education, the attention is drawn towards the potential for learning from creative fits - and misfits - between concrete local cultures, institutional practices and global aims and standards of education.
This work brings together a group of educational and developmental researchers and scholars grappling to find culturally informed and sensitive modes of educating people and communities. Case studies and examples from four geographical contexts are being discussed: China, Brazil, Australia and Europe. While being embedded in these local cultures, the authors share a conceptual grounding in cultural developmental theorizing and a vision for a culturally informed globalized perspective on education. As the theme of the book is learning from each other, the volume also includes commentaries from leading scholars in the field of cultural psychology and education.
Examines the topic of globalization and standardization of education through a novel and unique cultural developmental perspective
Draws upon case studies and examples from varied cultural contexts
Zooms in on the constructive and destructive tensions between global trends and local cultural practices
Introduces a unique conceptual framework to discuss challenges and opportunities
Examines the topic of globalization and standardization of education through a novel and unique cultural developmental perspective Draws upon case studies and examples from varied cultural contexts Zooms in on the constructive and destructive tensions between global trends and local cultural practices Introduces a unique conceptual framework to discuss challenges and opportunities
Autor*in
Pernille Hviid
Themen in »Culture in Education and Education in Culture«
Standardization of education Culturally sensitive education Cultural minorities and education Globalization and education Culture and education Culturally informed pedagogy Local vs global culture practices in education Global ideas and local practices in education