Schools & Society: Culture, Politics, & Globalization of Western Education— EDLF 7606—Spring 2022

01/19/2022-04/27/2022

Thursdays, 6:00-8:30 PM

Why does school look so similar across the world in spite of vast differences in resources, culture, and history? What countervailing notions of education might be displaced through the spread of formal Western education? This class explores the effort to expand access to formal schooling globally and probes the meanings, problems, and opportunities provided by modern education systems.