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The owl spreads its wings: Global and international education within the local from critical perspectives (2013)
Book Chapter
Swanson, D. (2013). The owl spreads its wings: Global and international education within the local from critical perspectives. In Y. Hébert, & A. A. Abdi (Eds.), Critical Perspectives on International Education (333-347). SensePublishers

Within an era of a New Knowledge Society, assumptions abound regarding the ‘goodness’ and justice of global interconnections and distributions of knowledge through international educational organizations and structures worldwide. Just as George Bush... Read More about The owl spreads its wings: Global and international education within the local from critical perspectives.

From Text to Pretext: An Ethical Turn in Curriculum Work (2012)
Book Chapter
Maheux, J.-F., Swanson, D., & Khan, S. (2012). From Text to Pretext: An Ethical Turn in Curriculum Work. In T. C. Mason, & R. J. Helfenbein (Eds.), Ethics and International Curriculum Work: The Challenges of Culture and Context (143-172). Information Age Publishing

Ubuntu, African Epistemology, and Development (2012)
Book Chapter
Swanson, D. M. (2012). Ubuntu, African Epistemology, and Development. In H. K. Wright, & A. A. Abdi (Eds.), The Dialectics of African Education and Western Discourses (27-52). Peter Lang

This chapter is a discussion in three parts and a closing argument. It begins with a discussion on development and references some of the philosophical difficulties with its Western-inspired conceptualization and ideological deployment in the African... Read More about Ubuntu, African Epistemology, and Development.

Parallaxes and paradoxes of Global Citizenship: Critical reflections and possibilities of praxis in/through an international online course. (2011)
Book Chapter
Swanson, D. M. (2011). Parallaxes and paradoxes of Global Citizenship: Critical reflections and possibilities of praxis in/through an international online course. In L. Shultz, A. A. Abdi, & G. H. Richardson (Eds.), Global Citizenship Education in Post Secondary Institutions: Theories, Practices, Policies (120-139). Peter Lang

"Global citizenship" has become a popular term in recent times. Often its deployment is intended to evoke the full ambit of intersectionalities of the global justices. An interest in the concept and its rationalization in the contemporary era are mar... Read More about Parallaxes and paradoxes of Global Citizenship: Critical reflections and possibilities of praxis in/through an international online course..