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Networks, Globalization, and World Bank Education Strategies

New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry

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Title Networks, Globalization, and World Bank Education Strategies
 
Creator Ferguson, James McKenzie
 
Description Development strategies of International Financial Institutions (IFIs), such as education strategies of the World Bank, advance globalization in part by promoting networks as organizational forms in public services and wider society. Networks are inherently decentralizing and are becoming the dominant organizational form due to advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The work of Karl Marx (interpreted through David Harvey), Manuel Castells, and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari provide new insights into the use of ICT and networks as a social organizational form. Technology does not determine society, but reveals our relations to nature, production, and reproduction, our social relations, and our mental conceptions. These relations are dialectic in the Marxian sense that we cannot change the world around us without also changing ourselves. World Bank education strategies advance a networked type of education system, and impose a new form of discipline, to facilitate the emergence of a knowledge economy. However, the World Bank does not include our relation to nature in these strategies, and the strategies lack detail concerning modes of production and reproduction – essential to knowing why education is necessary. A more comprehensive understanding of the network form and ICT can contribute to critiques of development discourses in education reform and modes of being in the world.
 
Publisher New Proposals Publishing Society
 
Date 2019-05-29
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
research-article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/187519
 
Source New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry; Vol. 10 No. 1 (2019); 5-15
1715-6718
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/187519/188693
 
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