Learning in the global era
Subtitle: international perspectives on globalization and education
By: edited by Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco
Contributors: Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M., 1956-
Publisher: University of California Press; Ross Institute
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berkeley; [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780520254343; 9780520254367
Subjects: Education and globalization; Education and state; Educational change; Educational equalization; Education -- Effect of technological innovations on; Learning
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Learning in the global era / Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco and Carolyn Sattin; title: From teaching globalization to nurturing global consciousness / Veronica Boix Mansilla and Howard Gardner; title: Understanding cultural patterns / Peter Gärdenfors; title: Mind, brain and education in the era of globalization / Tami Katzir, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, and Kurt W. Fischer; title: Social conduct, neurobiology, and education / Hanna Damasio and Antonio Damasio; title: The global spread of women's schooling : effects on learning, literacy, health, and children / Robert A. LeVine; title: Globalization and education : can the world meet the challenge? / Bernard Hugonnier; title: How computerized work and globalization shape human skill demands / Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane; title: The postindustrial workplace and challenges to education / Kai-ming Cheng; title: On the need for teaching intercultural skills : challenges for education in a globalizing world / Rita Süssmuth; title: The integration of immigrant youth / Maurice Crul; title: The education of immigrant students in a globalized world : policy debates in a comparative perspective / Marie McAndrew; title: First-language and -culture learning in light of globalization : the case of Muslims in Flanders and in the Brussels area, Belgium / Eugeen Roosens; title: Rethinking honor in regards to human rights : an educational imperative in troubled times / Unni Wikan