The World Bank and Education: Critiques and Alternatives (Comparative and International Education: a Diversity of Voices, 14) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9460919014 ISBN 13: 9789460919015

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2012

Synopsis

For more than three decades, the World Bank has been proposing global policies for education. Presented as research-based, validated by experience, and broadly applicable, these policies are ideologically driven, insensitive to local contexts, and treat education as independent of international dynamics and national and local economies and cultures. Target countries, needing resources and unable to generate comparable research, find it difficult to challenge World Bank recommendations. The World Bank and Education: Critiques and Alternatives represents a powerful challenge to World Bank proposals. Probing core issues-equity, quality, finance, privatization, teaching and learning, gender, and human rights-highlights the disabilities of neoliberal globalization. The authors demonstrate the ideological nature of the evidence marshaled by the World Bank and the accompanying policy advice. Addressing key education issues in developing countries, the authors' analyses provide tools for resisting and rejecting generic policy prescriptions as well as alternative directions to consider. Robert Arnove, in his preface, says, "whether the Bank is responsive to the critiques and alternatives brilliantly offered by the present authors, the book is certain to influence development and education scholars, policymakers, and practitioners around the globe."

About this title

About the Author:

Nelly P. Stromquist is professor in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California.

Review:

"Highly recommended for anyone interested in the harm neoliberal policy is doing to education worldwide." --International Review of Education

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 9460919014
• ISBN 13: 9789460919015
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 245
• Editor: Klees Steven J., Samoff Joel, Stromquist Nelly P.