LINKING MARXISM, GLOBALIZATION, AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION: TOWARD A COMPARATIVE AND CRITICAL PEDAGOGY POST 9/11

摘要

In a post-9/11 world, where the politics of "us" versus "them" has reemerged under the umbrella of "terrorism," especially in the United States, can we still envision an education sans fron-tieres: a globalized and critical praxis of citizenship education in which there are no borders? If it is possible to conceive it, what might it look like? In this review essay, Awad Ibrahim looks at how these multilayered and complex questions have been addressed in three books: Peter McLaren and Ramin Far-ahmandpur's Teaching Against Global Capitalism and the New Imperialism, Nel Noddings's Educating Citizens for Global Awareness, and Gita Steiner-Khamsi's The Global Politics of Educational Borrowing and Lending. Ibrahim concludes that, through creating a liminal, dialogical space between humanism, environmentalism, materialism, philosophy, and comparative education, the authors in these books offer a critical pedagogy in which education sans frontieres is possible — a project that is as visionary as it is hopeful.