Globalisation and Local Experience
Encounters with Difference in a UK School
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3136608 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matt Baillie Smith (0000-0002-1798-7329, University of Warwick, corresponding author), Matt Smith (0000-0002-8898-1119, University of Warwick) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 117-135 |
| Publication date | 2002-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-954x.2002.tb02794.x |
| OpenAlex | W4249108964 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
This paper explores issues of identity, difference and globalisation in the micro-political context of a UK school. Drawing on ethnographic data and theoretical perspectives from the sociology of education, development and globalisation, the paper takes the communication of the 'Third World' in the curriculum as a case study of the ways in which UK schools engage with difference. Thus, the paper goes beyond the traditional focus on 'race' and ethnicity, emphasising the importance of distant difference in the context of globalisation. It is suggested that whilst teachers may identify local and global factors as underpinning the need to engender critical engagements with difference, the realisation of this is complex; the communication of the 'Third World' in the school is characterised by contradiction, reinforcing as well as unsettling ethnocentrism. To understand this situation, we need to locate these contradictions in terms of the complex interplay of restructuring processes, policy frameworks and the micro-politics of the school. The paper highlights the impacts of increased assessment and measurement in education alongside policy contradictions around curriculum authority. Teacher empowerment in the articulation of an appropriate curriculum is identified as a priority
Articulation (sociology) · Context (archaeology) · Curriculum · Economic geography · Ethnocentrism · Geography · Globalization · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Restructuring · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of Education · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Globalization and Cultural Identity · Law · Religious Education and Schools
Reforming education and changing schools
Postmodernism and Education
Geographical imaginations
Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World
Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism
Spaces of Identity
Racism, Identity and Modernity
Teachers and Teaching in an Interdependent World
Post-modernity, Education and European Identities
Restructuring restructuring
The Micro‐politics of Macro Reform
The condition of postmodernity
The New Cultural Politics of Difference
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |