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A Critical Analysis of the Fulbright Program from a World Systems Perspective
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Marisa Lally; Shadman Islem – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2023
The Fulbright Program is the United States' flagship educational exchange program. Since 1946, the program has been heralded as a program that promotes mutual understanding across cultures. However, the Fulbright Program's role as a U.S. Department of State initiative warrants further examination of how this educational exchange program functions…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, International Educational Exchange, Higher Education, Foreign Policy
The Task of Education as We Confront the Potential for Social and Ecological Collapse
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Andreotti, Vanessa De Oliveira – Ethics and Education, 2021
This article invites us to consider the task of education as we face the end of the world as we have known it. The first part of the article gives an overview of global and educational challenges, drawing attention to how formal education has been complicit in the reproduction of historical and systemic violence, as well as unsustainability. This…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Social Justice, Educational Practices, Empowerment
How Do Science and Technology Affect International Affairs?
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Weiss, Charles – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2015
Science and technology influence international affairs by many different mechanisms. Both create new issues, risks and uncertainties. Advances in science alert the international community to new issues and risks. New technological capabilities transform war, diplomacy, commerce, intelligence, and investment. This paper identifies six basic…
Descriptors: Science and Society, International Cooperation, Global Approach, Technological Advancement
On Dialectics and Human Decency: Education in the Dock
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McLaren, Peter – Open Review of Educational Research, 2015
Set against the backdrop of the contemporary crisis of capitalism and world-historical events, this article examines the advance of globalized imperialism from the perspective of a Marxist-humanist approach to pedagogy known as "revolutionary critical pedagogy" enriched by liberation theology. It is written as an epistolic manifesto to…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Current Events, World Affairs, World Problems
Decolonising Disability: Thinking and Acting Globally
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Meekosha, Helen – Disability & Society, 2011
This paper argues that the dominance of the global North in the universalising and totalising tendencies of writings about disability has resulted in the marginalisation of these experiences in the global South. This constitutes an intellectual crisis for disability studies in the periphery. The experience of colonisation and colonialism in the…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Social Attitudes, Disabilities, Geographic Location
The Problems and Possibilities for Peace Studies
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Spencer, Bruce – Convergence, 2006
Is there really a connection between "adult education" and "peace" today: or are many of today's adult educators so busy they are not interested in the big issues of the day? Or is it perhaps that concerns about "world peace" appear to be too remote to be influenced by adult education initiatives? The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Peace, Adult Educators, Social Action