Publisher's Synopsis
As we witness the burgeoning of a global economy, we learn that the manner in which we are taught is increasingly shaped by the demands of the marketplace. The author examines modern education and proposes a visionary transformation of this century's pedagogy. This volume confronts the current market forces that are moving education in the direction of a narrow-sighted vision of "training in competitiveness". rather than supporting the notion of competition, the author argues that the process of learning should espouse a global understanding of Earth as a habitat of interdependent life forms.;In his exploration of the foundational levels of education, O'Sullivan incorporates scholarship from a variety of disciplines, including: anthropology, post-colonial studies, ecology, cosmology, political theory, feminist theory, media studies, chaos and morphic resonance theory, and the new physics. The breath of the study is extensive, thus exemplifying the author's radical aim to revise the way in which we live and learn about our world.
