JAPSS VOL 2, SPECIAL ISSUE

NO. 1, AUGUST 2010

Globalization, Development and Education in Africa and Asia/Pacific:

Critical Perspectives

 Guest Editor: Dr. Dip Kapoor, University of Alberta, Canada

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Contents

Editorial Introduction and Table of Contents

Part I: Formal Contexts of Education

Globalization, Culture and Development: Perspectives on Africa

Ali A. Abdi     

The Interface of Neoliberal Globalization, Science Education and Indigenous African Knowledges in Africa

Edward Shizha 

Neoliberal Globalization, ZANU PF Authoritarian Nationalism and the Creation of Crises in Higher Education in Zimbabwe

Munyaradzi Hwami 

Critical Perspectives on NGOs and Educational Policy Development in Ethiopia

Thashika Pillay

Theoretical Deployments, Caste Expositions and Research Agendas: Macro-scoping Neoliberal Globalization, Saffronization and Dalit Poverty and Educational Prospects in India

Dip Kapoor

Neoliberal Globalization and “Global Education” in Urban Secondary Schools in India: Colonial Reproductions or Anti-Colonial Possibilities?

Tejwant K. Chana 

Media and Youth Identity in Pakistan: Global-Local Dynamics and Disjuncture

Al-Karim Datoo

Neoliberal Globalization, Higher Education Policies and International Student Flows: An Exploratory Case Study of Chinese Graduate Student Flows to Canada

Jie Zheng

II. Social Movement/Action, NGO and Community Contexts of Education

Subaltern Biopolitics in the Networks of the Commonwealth

Sourayan Mookerjea

Fighting FTAs, Education for Action: The Challenges of Building Resistance to Bilateral Free Trade Agreements

Aziz Choudry

Contesting Globalization in Ghana: Communal Resource Defense and Social Movement Learning

Jonathan Langdon

Learning from Power in Development Cooperation: Lessons from Senegal

Blane Harvey 

Development Intervention and Ethnic Communities in Bangladesh and Thailand: A Critique

Bijoy P. Barua

Author Biographies