We offer in this book a collection of chapters that reflect a broad range of issues linking globalization to education in an accessible yet theoretically grounded and detailed form. The authors analyze phenomena on the global plane, in local spaces, and in the connections between the global and the local.

Nelly P. Stromquist is professor of international education policy at the University of Maryland. She studies globalization, gender, and adult education policies and practices from a critical sociological perspective.
Karen Monkman is a professor of educational policy studies at DePaul University. Her work focuses on education as it relates to globalization, gender, and migration.

Preface
Abbreviations & Acronyms
Part I. Conceptual and Methodological Issues
1.Defining Globalization and Assessing Its Implications, Revisted
Nelly P. Stromquist and Karen Monkman
2.Globalization, Educational Change, and the National State
Martin Carnoy
3.Globalization and Global Governance in Education
Karen Mundy and Caroline Manion
4.The Productive Plasticity of Rights: Globalization, Education and Human Rights
Monisha Bajaj
5."The Girl Effect": U.S. Transnational Corporate Investment in Girls' Education
Kathryn Moeller
6.Globalization and Curriculum Inquiry: Performing Transnational Imaginaries
Noel Gough
7.Globalization and the Social Construction of Reality: Affirming or Unmasking the "Inevitable"?
Catherine A. Odora Hoppers
8.Studying Globalization: The Vertical Case Study Approach
Lesley Bartlett and Frances Vavrus
Part II. Globalization Impacts in Various Educational Sectors
9.Globalization Responses from European and Australian University Sectors
Jan Currie and Lesley Vidovich
10.Globalization of the Community College Model: Paradox of the Local and the Global Revisited
Rosalind Latiner Raby
11.Growing Up in the Great Recession: Revisiting the Restructuring of Gender, Schooling, and Work
Peter Kelly and Jane Kenway
12.Globalization, Adult Education and Development
Shirley Walters
Part III. National Case Studies of Globalization Impacts
13.Globalization in Japan: Education Policy and Curriculum
Lynne Parmenter
14.Global Encounters of the Universal and the Particular in Educational Policies in México 1988-2006
Rosa Nidia Buenfil
15.The Impacts of Globalization on Education in Malaysia
Molly N. N. Lee
16.The Consequences of Global Mass Education: Schooling, Work and Well-being in EFA-era Malawi
Nancy Kendall and Rachel Silver
17.Globalization and Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Narrowing of Education's Purpose
Salim Vally and Carol Anne Spreen
18. "Still Hanging off the Edge": An Australian Case Study of Gender, Universities and Globalization
Jill Blackmore
Contributors
Index