Globalisation & Pedagogy: Space, Place and Identity

The reconfiguration of pedagogical practices around the globe has taken on a momentum that an earlier generation might well have considered startling and disorientating. Many still working in the education and training arenas do experience a high degree of disorientation and dislocation. With different pedagogic practices come different ways of examining them and fresh understandings of their implications and assumptions. It is the examination of these changes and developments that is the subject of this book.The authors examine a number of questions posed by the rapid march of globalisation, incuding:What is the role of the teacher, and how do we teach in the context of globalisation?What curriculum is appropriate when people and ideas become more mobile?How do the technologies of the internet and mobile phone impact upon what is learnt and by whom?The second edition of this imporatant book has been fully updated and extended to take account of developments in technology, pedagogy and practice, in particular the growth of distance and e-learning. Drawing upon a wide range of literature, it explores the changing configurations of pedagogy in response to and as part of globalising processes and raises questions about identity and difference, homogeneity and heterogeneity, in the practices of education and training.Robin Usher is the author of 'Globalisation & Pedagogy: Space, Place and Identity', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415428958 and ISBN 0415428955.