Because «globalization» is expressed in many ways and evokes complex responses, it demands various lines of analysis. Globalizing Education shows how this phenomenon is mediated and mitigated by a range of educational policies, pedagogies, and politics. It identifies the forms of educational governance associated with neoliberal globalism and their manifold effects on nation-state education systems, highlighting the colonizing minority-world imperatives and retraditionalizing ramifications. It also shows how the global cultural economy - the disjunctive flows of images, people, and ideas - both challenges and reinforces conventional educational trajectories. The global/national mesh-works created by drugs, technology, and unions are among the complicated connectivities explored. This book exposes the more pernicious effects on education of neo-liberal and corporate globalization and explores and identifies innovative and transformative educational policies, pedagogies, and politics. Because «globalization» is expressed in many ways and evokes complex responses, it demands various lines of analysis. Globalizing Education shows how this phenomenon is mediated and mitigated by a range of educational policies, pedagogies, and politics. It identifies the forms of educational governance associated with neoliberal globalism and their manifold effects on nation-state education systems, highlighting the colonizing minority-world imperatives and retraditionalizing ramifications. It also shows how the global cultural economy ¿ the disjunctive flows of images, people, and ideas ¿ both challenges and reinforces conventional educational trajectories. The global/national mesh-works created by drugs, technology, and unions are among the complicated connectivities explored. This book exposes the more pernicious effects on education of neo-liberal and corporate globalization and explores and identifies innovative and transformative educational policies, pedagogies, and politics. List of Figures ix Globalizing Education: Perspectives from Above and Below 1(30) Michael Singh Jane Kenway Michael W. Apple Globalizing the Young in the Age of Desire: Some Educational Policy Issues 31(14) Jane Kenway Elizabeth Bullen Cultural Pedagogies of Technology in a Globalized Economy 45(16) Helen Nixon New Policies, New Possibilities? Adult Learners in the Global Economy 61(18) Sue Shore Globalizing the Rustbelt and Public Schools 79(14) Pat Thomson International Trade in Education Services: Governing the Liberalization and Regulation of Private Enterprise 93(20) Christopher Ziguras Responsive Education: Enabling Transformative Engagements with Transitions in Global/National Imperatives 113(22) Michael Singh Performing Pedagogy and the Re(construction) of Global/Local Selves 135(16) Gayle Morris Developing Local Teachers' Skills for Addressing Ethno-Specific Drug Issues of Global Proportions 151(20) Scott K. Phillips Virtual Spaces for Innovative Pedagogical Actions: Education, Technology, and Globalization 171(20) Lynton Brown Living in Liminal Times: Early Childhood Education and Young Children in the Global/Local Information Society 191(18) Susan Grieshaber Nicola Yelland Are Markets in Education Democratic? Neoliberal Globalism, Vouchers, and the Politics of Choice 209(22) Michael W. Apple The Marketization of Education within the Global Capitalist Economy 231(16) Helen Raduntz Teachers' and Public-Sector Workers' Engagement with ``Globalization from Above'': Resisting Regressive Parochialism in Queensland 247(18) Peter Kell Making Progressive Educational Politics in the Current Globalization Crisis 265(16) Suzanne Franzway Rethinking the Democratic Purposes of Public Schooling in a Globalizing World 281(16) Alan Reid List of Contributors 297(6) Index 303