Argues that Deweyan philosophical pragmatism does not share the radical ontological and epistemological theses that are common elements of constructivism, demonstrating that the Deweyan-pragmatic perspective is one that is ontologically realist and requires a correspondence of truth. The paper concludes that Deweyan pragmatism is neither a version…

Examines how the social and cultural terrain of educational policy and discourse has been altered, highlighting the need for closer connections between theoretical and critical discourses, on one hand, and real transformations currently shifting educational policies and practices in fundamentally rightist directions, on the other. The real and…

Reviews four books in order to examine the contradictory and ambivalent spaces occupied and co-occupied with multicultural education, locating multicultural education within the Eurocentric regimes of truth (democracy, pluralism, and equality) and addressing how the books rectify or contest the regimes of truth moving within and against the…

Suggests that Niklas Luhmann's perspective on socialization and education deserves attention from educational researchers. The paper reviews the paradigm change in systems theory, examines Luhmann's core concepts and their consequences, and discusses conceptual distinctions and determinations regarding issues of socialization and education,…

Removes disability from its peripheral status in analyses of difference, retheorizing it as the organizing principle in constructing gender, race, and class in schooling. The paper suggests a critical pedagogy that helps render visible the material structures and ideological discourses that have different effects on minority students yet must be…

Discusses the importance of values education, focusing on: the primary moral concerns of values education; varieties of values education (law, culture, and morality); varieties of values education (cultural diversity); value and evaluation (some conceptual problems); the grounds of value objectivity; Aristotle, virtue, and value; and general…

Presents the stories of three teachers who had known the love of learning and teaching but were at points in their careers where they despaired, explaining that to come to grips with their despair, one must understand their love of learning and teaching and the costs of its loss and examining enlarged love as a route out of despair. (SM)

Introduces a collection of essays that examine the notions of globalization from the perspective of educational theory and explore the ways in which the discourses, practices, and institutions of education have been affected by globalization and the ways in which educational policies have both expressed and responded to the pressures of…

Discusses how globalization might affect national educational policies and practices in the context of: appreciating the force of extranational effects, specifying what may be affected, and exploring how that effect might occur. The paper describes a theory of the relationship between globalization and education, examining two contrasting…

Discusses political and cultural forms of globalization, suggesting that the economic dimension of globalization has dominated the policy agenda of western governments as they have attempted to position themselves favorably in competitive global markets. This analysis seeks to determine how globalization might produce dynamic new opportunities…

Examines the relationship between education and globalization through the lenses of feminist theories, discussing the consequences of globalization for gender equity work in education. The paper argues that the restructuring of the government that flows from the neoliberal political response to globalization presents dangerous opportunities for…

This case study illuminates the process of globalization in the public policy domain of vocational education, drawing on the relation between Australia and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The paper argues that educational globalization does not necessarily imply policy homogenization, but rather that tensions exist…

Examines changing conceptions of globalization in education, highlighting new electronic information technologies that, rather than promoting homogeneity, are producing a stimulus for a politics of difference. Cyborgs and cyberspace are emerging as discourses of disunity and difference. The essay recommends a form of critical localism to challenge…

This essay enacts a philosophy of science education inspired by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's figurations of rhizomatic and nomadic thought. It imagines rhizomes shaking the tree of modern Western science and science education by destabilising arborescent conceptions of knowledge as hierarchically articulated branches of a central stem or…

This paper explores alternative approaches to the conception of scientific literacy, drawing on cultural studies and emerging practices in language arts as its framework. The paper reviews historic tensions in the understanding of scientific literacy and then draws on the multiliteracies movement in language arts to suggest a scientific…