SHIFTING TERRAINS - MAPPING EDUCATION WITHIN A GLOBAL LANDSCAPE

In this article, the authors draw on critical social theory and educat ional theory and research to review and deconstruct educational discou rses that have become common in this era of mass globalization. Key is sues embedded within these discourses include addressing the education al needs of children from marginalized social and cultural groups, pre paring students for the information-based jobs of the future, restruct uring schools to fit with the reterritorialization of urban and suburb an spaces, and gauging the effects of mass media on stereotypical noti ons of youths, schools, and schooling. The authors deploy Arjun Appadu rai's model of ever shifting and interrelated global flows to bring in to relief how various aspects of globalization both enable and constra in different kinds of social, spatial, and economic mobility for today 's youths. They conclude by suggesting new ways to understand the comp lex and paradoxical effects of globalization on education and schoolin g.