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The owl spreads its wings: Global and international education within the local from critical perspectives

Swanson, Dalene

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Yvonne Hébert
Editor

Ali A. Abdi
Editor

Abstract

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 Jr. in attempting to justify the invasion of Iraq made claim to the democratic goodness of the US ‘spreading their freedoms’ in the interests of an all-encompassing democratization of the world, so the assumption that sharing educational knowledge, especially an ‘all-knowing North’ with a ‘helpless South’ is without question for the greater good of all humanity.

Citation

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

Online Publication Date Feb 11, 2013
Publication Date Jan 1, 2013
Deposit Date Jun 25, 2023
Pages 333-347
Series Title Comparative and International Education: A Diversity of Voices
Series Number 15
Book Title Critical Perspectives on International Education
Chapter Number 24
ISBN 9789460919053
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/14601746
Publisher URL https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-6091-906-0_24
Related Public URLs https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-906-0