Educational futures : dominant and contesting visions /

"Provides an overview and analysis of current tensions, debates, and key issues within OECD nations, particularly Australia, USA, Canada and the UK, with regard to where education is and should be going. ... Five specific discourses are explored: globalization; new information and communication...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: MilojeviÔc, Ivana, 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Routledge, 2005.
Series:Futures and education series.
Subjects:
Education > Aims and objectives > OECD countries.
Education > OECD countries > Forecasting.
Éducation > Pays de l'Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques > Prévision.
Éducation > Finalités > Pays de l'Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.
Enseignement > Réforme > Pays de l'Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.
EDUCATION > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Education > Forecasting
Education > Aims and objectives
OECD countries
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Future, time and education : contexts and connections
  • Using time and the future to colonise and educate the other
  • Turn of the spiral : alternative histories
  • The colonisation of the future
  • Visions I : globalisation
  • Visions II : Cyberia, the information age
  • Contextualising global dreams and nightmares
  • Visions III : feminist alternatives
  • Visions IV : indigenous alternatives
  • Visions V : spiritual alternatives
  • Postmodern visions, costs, and multi-temporalities
  • Epistemic change and the transformation of education.

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