Culture, Transnational Education and Thinking

Taylor & Francis

Culture, Transnational Education and ThinkingCase studies in global schooling\nAuthor(s): Niranjan Casinader\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138701977, 978-1138701977\nSynopsis\nThe notion of thinking skills as a key component of a 21st century school education is now firmly entrenched in educational policy and curriculum frameworks in many parts of the world. However, there has been relatively little questioning of the manner in which educational globalisation has facilitated this diffusion of thinking skills, curriculum and pedagogy in a cultural context. This book will help to redress such an imbalance in its critical assessment of the cross-cultural validity of transplanting thinking skills programs from one educational system to another on an international scale.\n\nCulture, Transnational Education and Thinking provides an international comparative study of the intersection of three educational concepts: c.