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About CGS
Events
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Friday, April 1, 2005 3:00pm
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Levis Faculty Center Music Room
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Description:
This paper examines current educational reforms with regard to two axes: a vertical one concerning whether policies are initiated from above or below, and a horizontal one concerning whether goals are primarily economic or sociopolitical. The neoliberal policies of privatization and decentralization promoted by international and bilateral financial and technical assistance agencies (the World Bank, IMF, USAID, etc.) are contrasted with grassroots social movements constituting a "Lilliputian" counter-hegemonic project. In between are collaborative efforts of state governments and NGOs that also contain the potential for more egalitarian educational policies and social change.
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Full Text of Paper (pdf)
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Speakers:
Robert Arnove, Education, Indiana University
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Biography:
Robert F. Arnove, Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Education, Indiana University, received his PhD from Stanford (1969) in the field of International Development Education with a specialization in the sociology of education. He is the past President (2000-2001) and lifetime Honorary Fellow of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). His co-edited books, Comparative Education (Macmillan, 1982), Emergent Issues in Education: Comparative Perspectives (SUNY Press, 1992), and Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local (1999, 2003) have been the leading texts in this field. He has published extensively on the politics of education, education and social change, alternative and popular education, national literacy campaigns, philanthropy and cultural imperialism, and world-systems analysis, globalization, and the neoliberal agenda with a principal focus on Latin America. Another line of inquiry has involved studying master teachers/coaches and the development of world-class talent in different fields of endeavor cross-culturally.
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Co-Sponsors:
The Departments of Sociology, Geography, Urban and Regional Planning, and the Center for Global Studies.
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