Globality, Globalization, and Critical Pedagogy

Abstract

For critical pedagogy, confronting the terrain of the global means considering not only implications of the objective reorganization of social life as a result of new transnational economic and political regimes but the implications also of a dramatic transformation in the context for critical teaching and activism that the scale of the global, as a fundamental frame of reference, represents. While the previous chapter considers how oppositional movement needs to be reconceptualized in the present, in this chapter I am concerned with the impact of globalizing processes on identities and relationships, and particularly relationships within educational contexts. These processes alter the underlying settings for interventions, and critical pedagogy must rethink its strategies within these new settings. If the nature of oppression is different, or if its prevalent modes or experiences are altered, antioppressive education must be prepared to adapt as well. And if the meanings and possibilities of “democracy” are deeply affected by globalization, forms of pedagogy oriented toward creating democratic spaces and relationships must be attentive to these effects.KeywordsSocial LifeNorth American Free Trade AgreementCritical PedagogyOppositional MovementSocial Justice MovementThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.