Occasional Essays

A number of short pieces, giving diverse perspectives on Globalization and Education can be found here. If you would like to submit a piece for this forum, please contact us here: global@ed.uiuc.edu

Why the Right Hates Public Education: Barbara Miner

Barbara Miner's piece discusses the complex relationship between religious right and privatization of public services.

Interview with Vandana Shiva: The Role of Patents in the Rise of Globalization

Vandana Shiva talks about patent laws and the affected poor in developing countries.

Philippines: Workers for the World: The country's prime export is people. But is migration a real development strategy?

Galicano Solares lives beneath a highway overpass in a dank Manila slum. His on-again, off-again construction job pays $4 a day, considerably more than he earned in the gold mines of Bicol before he moved to the city in the late 1980s. Yet he can't afford to educate his three children-now under the care of relatives in the countryside-let alone build the middle-class future of their dreams.

Importing Equality? The Impact of Globalization on Gender Discrimination

Have global processes been able to reduce gender discrimination? Sandra E. Black and Elizabeth BrainerdT test the hypothesis that increased competition resulting from globalization in the 1980s forced employers to reduce costly discrimination against women.

Do We Want Just a Market, or a Just Market ?, asks Kevin Danaher in his piece Globalization and the Downsizing of American Dream

An Educator's Reflections on the Crisis in Education and Democracy in the US : An Interview with Henry A. Giroux

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept04/Pozo0925.htm

Jennifer Washburn, the author of University, Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education, talks about commercialization of universities.

Sandeep Pandey critiques modern education in his piece More than schooling

Pauline Lipman connects No Child Left Behind to growing global inequalities in her piece Bush's Education Plan, Globalization, and the Politics of Race

A critical piece from infed on the growing presence of corporations in the field of education.

http://www.infed.org/biblio/globalization_and_education.htm