Book Review Symposium

Abstract

University and college teaching is always a deeply collective effort. Our students can only learn insofar as they have already learned from others, including their parents, school-teachers, and communities, as well as other academics. And precisely because of what they have already learned, our students also often teach us a great deal themselves. Meanwhile, as teachers we adapt our pedagogy from all those who have taught us throughout our own educational journeys. We also repeatedly revise and develop our teaching based on reviewing the work of those who teach alongside us–both locally and globally. And, as academic listservs, blogs and websites now document daily, scholarteachers are constantly sharing tips, tools and texts that inspire, while also offering ideas for improvement to others who share commitments to critical pedagogy. Read in the spirit of this ongoing collective effort, the four reviews of my book offered here do me the great honor of making my own teaching text on globalization the focus of evaluative and adaptive reflection. I am extremely thankful to the reviewers and Antipode for the time and space this has taken, and hope that it in turn offers an opportunity for a wider audience to reflect on how texts on globalization relate to some of the wider contexts in and about which we teach.