Showing papers by "Susan L. Robertson published in 2006"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that in order to proceed in ways that are productive for developing a critical research imagination, we must begin by first interrogating the conceptual tools we use to understand globalisation.
Abstract: In his paper ‘Grassroots globalization and the research imagination’, Arjun Appadurai challenges academics to develop ways of researching and engaging with the victims of globalisation. A key objective of Appadurai's is to sketch out the problematic and build up the terrain on which a democratisation of research about globalisation might take place. I argue that in order to proceed in ways that are productive for developing a critical research imagination, we must begin by first interrogating the conceptual tools we use to understand globalisation. I identify three absences that are evident in current approaches by researchers working on globalisation and education which seem to me to be particularly pressing; first, the absence of a critical spatial analytic; second, the absence of subaltern or alternative knowledges; and third, the absence of research reflecting on the altered terrain and politics of democratic representation as a result of global processes. In the concluding section I return to the ide...
60 citations
01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline a new geography of power in education, an emerging functional, institutional, and scalar division of the labour of education systems in the global economy.
Abstract: In this chapter we outline what we argue is a new geography of power in education – an emerging functional, institutional and scalar division of the labour of education systems in the global economy. We draw upon two case studies that we elaborate in some detail; the construction of the ‘European education space’ within the EU and the rise of the World Trade Organisation and its agreements around trading in services in order to detail both the governance and scalar features of these new political projects as well as the contradictions posed for national systems of education.
49 citations
TL;DR: The term "brain drain" has become an important if not controversial political and economic issue in the United States as discussed by the authors and has been used to refer to immigration to the US since the 1950s.
Abstract: The term ‘brain drain’, popularised in the 1950s with reference to immigration to the United States, has, in the past 10 years, become an important if not controversial political and economic issue...
48 citations
Journal Article•
TL;DR: The Politics of Constructing (a Competitive) Europe through Internationalising Higher Education: Strategy, Structures, Subjects, published by the Centre for Globalisation, Education and Societies, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1JA, UK, available: http://susanleerobertson.com/publications/.
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34 citations
Book Chapter•
01 Jan 2006
8 citations
01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: The InterActive Education project as discussed by the authors investigated ways in which information and communications technology can be used to enhance learning, with a particular focus on improving subject knowledge, such as the world of history, of English, of foreign languages, of science, of music or mathematics.
Abstract: An important aspect of schooling is to enable students to enter new knowledge worlds, such as the world of history, of English, of foreign languages, of science, of music, or of mathematics. In the InterActive Education project we have worked in partnership with primary and secondary school teachers, to investigate ways in which information and communications technology can be used to enhance learning, with a particular focus on improving subject knowledge.
8 citations