Globalizing Policies: Standardization in an Increasingly Nonstandardized World

• In Event: Roundtable Session 27

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This symposium engages internationally recognized scholars from traditionally disparate fields of study (policy, curriculum/didaktik, and leadership) in a theoretically grounded dialogue regarding curriculum challenges experienced by increasingly multicultural nation-states in an increasingly interdependent world and educational responses to these. Recent neoliberal policies, geopolitical repositioning, technological developments, changes in economic production, increasing multiculturalism, and global interdependences on all societal sectors have created profound challenges for nation-states, as well as institutions and individuals within them, in the western hemisphere and globally. Papers provide an opening for a critical, theoretically informed dialogue regarding new global tensions between standardization and non-standardization, between the need for unity and plurality, between the global and the local, between schools and other societal institutions.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 4: People and Politics (The Who of Curriculum)

Chairs

• Rose M. Ylimaki, The University of Arizona

• Michael Uljens, Abo Academy University - Finland

Papers

• Globalizing Curriculum and Evaluation Policy in the Presence of an Interstate - Rose M. Ylimaki, The University of Arizona; Michael Uljens, Abo Academy University - Finland

• Globalization, Neoliberal Policies, and Theories of the Subject - Tero Henrik Autio, Tallinn University

• "Bruti, Sporchi & Cativi": Toward a Nonabyssal Curriculum - João Menelau Paraskeva, University of Massachusetts

• Discursive Institutionalism - Vivien Schmidt, Boston University

• A Framework for Curriculum Work-Leadership as Policy - Michael Uljens, Abo Academy University - Finland; Rose M. Ylimaki, The University of Arizona