Belonging in Changing Educational Spaces

This book explores the impacts on personal and professional, local and global forms of belonging in educational spaces amidst rapid changes shaped by globalization. Encouraging readers to consider the idea of belonging as an educational goal as much as a guiding educational strategy, this text forms a unique contribution to the field. Drawing on empirical and theoretical analyses, chapters illustrate how educational experience informs a sense of belonging, which is increasingly juxtaposed against a variety of global dynamics including neoliberalism, transnationalism, and global policy and practice discourses. Addressing phenomena such as refugee education, large-scale international assessments, and study abroad, the volume's focus on ten countries including Japan, Sierra Leone, and the US demonstrates the complexities of globalization and illuminates possibilities for supporting new constructions of belonging in rapidly globalizing educational spaces. This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in international and comparative education, multicultural education, and educational policy more broadly. Those interested in the sociology of education and cultural studies within education will also benefit from this volume.

Karen Monkman is Professor Emerita of Education at DePaul University, USA. Ann Frkovich is Associate Professor of Research at Concordia University, USA.

1 Introduction: Belonging in Globalizing Spaces Ann Frkovich & Karen Monkman Part I. Neoliberalism and the Complications of Belonging 2 The "Absolute Model" or "Disposable Commodities"? Navigating Charter School Teachers' Roles under Neoliberal Policy Regimes Beth Wright-Costello 3 Teacher or Policy Subject? Navigating Alternative Teacher Preparation in a Neoliberal Era Angela Kraemer-Holland 4 "Each One Standing on the Other's Head": Neoliberal Pariahdom and How Parvenu Culture Inhibits Broad Social Solidarity among the Working-Class Jeremiah Howe 5 Creative Destruction in School Education during COVID-19 Mariano Narodowski & Delfina Campetella Part II. Transnational Searches for Belonging 6 Adult Education as a Site for Integration? Experiences of Syrian Refugee Young Adults in Quebec Ratna Ghosh, Domenique Sherab, Milagros Calderón Moya & Arianne Maraj 7 Learning to Transcend the Nation State: The Flexible Citizenship of China's Elite Transnational Teenager Ann Frkovich 8 Enacting Borderland Pedagogies: Transnational Returnee English Teachers in Mexico Amy E. Laboe Part III. Effects of Global Policy Discourses on Belonging 9 Networked Education Systems and the Flow of PISA-Induced References Erika L. Kessler & Oren Pizmony-Levy 10 "I Am a Wicked Somebody": The Experience of Not Going to School in a Schooled Society Grace Pai 11 Transcending Colonial Rule and Reimagining Rhodesia's Future: The Rockefeller Foundation and the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1950-1980 Fungisai Musoni-Chikede 12 The Educational Quality Tribunal and its Influences on Teachers' Careers: The Chilean Case Carmelo Galioto Allegra & Camila Pérez Navarro Part IV. Knowledge and Practice for Global Belonging 13 Global Citizenship Education is a Verb: The Cultural Process of Constructing Global Citizens in an Age of Neoliberalism and English Language Dominance Thatcher A. Spero 14 Educational Territories and Schools that Go Global: The Case of IB Schools and the Emergence of New Territorialities Liliana Mayer & Verónica Gottau 15 Innovation in a Time of Making Do: COVID-19 and the Digital Divide through the Lens of a Mobile Phone Mathematics Program in South Africa Martha Fitzpatrick Bishai 16 Conclusion: Belonging in Multi-Layered Spaces Karen Monkman & Ann Frkovich