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Author: Olaf Cramme
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2009-04-27
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0745644201
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This book is the outcome of a series of seminars and conferences organised by Policy Network in the course of 2007"--Acknowledgements.
Author: Cynthia Gerstl-Pepin
Publisher: IAP
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 499
ISBN-13: 1617359262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The global economic meltdown has highlighted the interconnectedness of nations. This book seeks to provide an overview of topics, issues, and best practices related to defining social justice leadership given our increasingly global world. Refugees and immigrants from around the globe now inhabit schools and institutions of higher education across the nation and US students, teachers, and leaders are traversing international boarders both physically and virtually through international collaboration, technology, and exchange programs. Although there have been increased efforts and scholarship in support of diversity and multicultural awareness, these efforts have largely focused on the US. We acknowledge that many leadership theories are “domestic” in that they typically incorporate US perspectives or a single-culture description of effective leadership. This book provides a deeper understanding of diverse and multicultural perspectives as they relate to a world that is becoming increasingly interconnected economically, socially, and culturally. Particular attention is paid to providing specific strategies for social justice leaders working in PK-12 and/or higher education, and leadership preparation programs to promote effective leadership that reflects multicultural understanding of the diversity both within and outside the US. Within the context of leadership practice, internationalization offers new insights and ideas about leadership aims, processes, and competencies as a means for addressing equity concerns throughout PK-20 education.
Author: Michael Goldman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0300132093
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why is the World Bank so successful? How has it gained power even at moments in history when it seemed likely to fall? This pathbreaking book is the first close examination of the inner workings of the Bank, the foundations of its achievements, its propensity for intensifying the problems it intends to cure, and its remarkable ability to tame criticism and extend its own reach. Michael Goldman takes us inside World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C., and then to Bank project sites around the globe. He explains how projects funded by the Bank really work and why community activists struggle against the World Bank and its brand of development. Goldman looks at recent ventures in areas such as the environment, human rights, and good governance and reveals how—despite its poor track record—the World Bank has acquired greater authority and global power than ever before. The book sheds new light on the World Bank’s role in increasing global inequalities and considers why it has become the central target for anti-globalization movements worldwide. For anyone concerned about globalization and social justice, Imperial Nature is essential reading.
Author: Takehiko Kariya
Publisher: International Perspectives on
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0807764086
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Kariya and Rappleye focus on the Japanese model, looking at the country's educational history and policy shifts. They show how the Japanese experience can inform global approaches to educational reform and policymaking -and how this kind of exploration can reinvigorate a more rigorous discussion of meritocracy, equality, and education. This book is made available as an open-access electronic publication with the generous support of the Suntory Foundation"--
Author: Gary Craig
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2018-07-27
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 1786431424
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the fifty years since Rawls seminal work A Theory of Justice, the concept has been debated with those on the political right and left advocating very different understandings. This unique global collection, written by a group of international experts, offers wide-ranging analyses of the meaning of social justice that challenge the ability of the market to provide social justice for all. The Handbook also looks at how the theory of social justice informs practice within a range of occupations or welfare divisions.
Author: Virginia Eubanks
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2012-09-21
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0262294699
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The realities of the high-tech global economy for women and families in the United States. The idea that technology will pave the road to prosperity has been promoted through both boom and bust. Today we are told that universal broadband access, high-tech jobs, and cutting-edge science will pull us out of our current economic downturn and move us toward social and economic equality. In Digital Dead End, Virginia Eubanks argues that to believe this is to engage in a kind of magical thinking: a technological utopia will come about simply because we want it to. This vision of the miraculous power of high-tech development is driven by flawed assumptions about race, class, and gender. The realities of the information age are more complicated, particularly for poor and working-class women and families. For them, information technology can be both a tool of liberation and a means of oppression. But despite the inequities of the high-tech global economy, optimism and innovation flourished when Eubanks worked with a community of resourceful women living at her local YWCA. Eubanks describes a new approach to creating a broadly inclusive and empowering “technology for people,” popular technology, which entails shifting the focus from teaching technical skill to nurturing critical technological citizenship, building resources for learning, and fostering social movement. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images found in the physical edition.
Author: Gavin Kitching
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780271040509
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Unusual coming from a leftist perspective, this book argues that those who care for social justice should seek more globalization and not try to prevent its development or roll it back.
Author: Olaf Cramme
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2018-03-08
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0745675263
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What is the relationship between the principles of social justiceand global justice? How can we best reconcile the quest for greatersocial justice ‘at home' with greater social justice in theworld? Are the social justice pressures our societies currentlyface the result of globalisation or are they domesticallygenerated? How can we advance social justice in the light of thenew social realities? In this volume, leading international expertsoffer compelling answers to these questions. The aim of this volume is to articulate a modern conception ofsocial justice that remains relevant for an era of rapidglobalisation. The authors have developed a robust theoreticalaccount of the relationship between globalisation and socialjustice complemented by an underpinning policy framework that aimsto sustain new forms of equity and solidarity.
Author: Michael W. Apple
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-12-16
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 1135172773
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Education cannot be understood today without recognizing that nearly all educational policies and practices are strongly influenced by an increasingly integrated international economy. Reforms in one country have significant effects in others, just as immigration and population tides from one area to another have tremendous impacts on what counts as official knowledge and responsive and effective education. But what are the realities of these global crises that so many people are experiencing and how do their effects on education resonate throughout the world? Global Crises, Social Justice, and Education looks into the ways we understand globalization and education by getting specific about what committed educators can do to counter the relations of dominance and subordination around the world. From some of the world’s leading critical educators and activists, this timely new collection provides thorough and detailed analyses of four specific centers of global crisis: the United States, Japan, Israel/Palestine, and Mexico. Each chapter engages in a powerful and critical analysis of what exactly is occurring in these regions and counters with an equally compelling critical portrayal of the educational work being done to interrupt global dominance and subordination. Without settling for vague ideas or romantic slogans of hope, Global Crises, Social Justice, and Education offers real, concrete examples and strategies that will contribute to ongoing movements and counter-hegemonic struggles already active in education today.
