Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies articles from January 2005

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies archives from January 2005

Globalizing what: education as a human right or as a traded service?
January 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Globalization tends to be described as an extralegal phenomenon, (1) This image does not apply to education for which there is international law, albeit composed of two parallel and disconnected legal regimes. International...

To what ends: educational reform around the world.
January 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Many "reforms"--such as those related to welfare programs in the United States--can be actually seen as "deforms." These so-called "reforms" have led to increasing impoverishment and lives of misery for many instead of...

The globalization of multicultural education.
January 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION The appearance of edited volumes on a topic signals the maturation of scholarly reflection upon it within the field of comparative education. Such is the case with "multicultural education." (1) In common usage in the United...

Confronting the privatization and commercialization of academic research: an analysis of social implications at the local, national, and global levels.
January 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION In the current era of capitalist hegemony, the term "globalization" has become synonymous with the global dominance of private market economies. Though concepts of "internationalism" have long been associated with the...

Science, globalization, and educational governance: the political rationalities of the new managerialism.
January 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION The modern school has been a critical site for imagining possible publics and publicly-defining national purposes. Public education is presumed to provide a collective good to "a public"--"a public" of which the discourse...

The language of higher education assessment: legislative concerns in a global context.
January 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION In recent years, state and federal legislatures have taken increasingly outspoken stands as guardians of the public interest regarding the costs and benefits of higher education, particularly state-funded higher education. In...

Rallying the armies or bridging the gulf: questioning the significance of faith-based educational initiatives in a global age.
January 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION In some segments of the educational policy world, a shift is underway from regarding schools as secular, modernizing institutions, separate from religious organizations, to thinking about schools as "faith-starved"...

"Glocalizing" Chinese higher education: groping for stones to cross the river.(Globalization and Education)
January 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Over two and one-half decades have passed since Deng Xiaoping proclaimed that Chinese education must face in "three directions"--toward modernization, the world, and the future. (1) At that time leaders had yet to articulate...

Programs for democratic citizenship in Mexico's ministry of education: local appropriations of global cultural flows.(Globalization and Education)
January 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Recent scholarship in comparative education has called attention to the problems and challenges associated with the intensified globalization of educational programs. (1) Structural arrangements for schooling in poorer...

French and U.S. modes of educational regulation facing modernity.(Globalization and Education)
January 1, 2005... Similar principles guide the educational reforms currently taking place in most countries: ensuring that all eligible people can attend school, ensuring that the skills and knowledge imparted are relevant to the real world, ensuring educational...

Terrorism: the international response of the courts.
January 1, 2005... I. A CENTURY OF TERRORISM The events of September 11, 2001 in the United States, of October 12, 2002 in Bali, and during 2004 in Madrid, Breslan, and Jakarta, have brought home to the world the challenge that acts of terrorism present when...

In fear of international law.
January 1, 2005... The thesis of this paper is that governments of some otherwise enlightened states are increasingly fearful of acknowledging the restraints imposed on them by existing international law. They are also reluctant to enter into new commitments by...