This text uses examples and perspectives from economics, technology and mass media to show how globalization is producing unprecedented impacts on education and culture. The author points to governmental and school policies that can actively shape the future of education.

This volume offers an introduction to these complex changes, recognizing the role of the state while explaining new forces like transnational corporations and non-governmental organizations. The author points to governmental and school policies that can actively shape the future of education at a time of rapid change.

Introduction
I. Theorizing Globalization
II. The Twinning of Ideas and Material Conditions: Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Postmodernism
III. Educational Impacts of Economic and Cultural Globalization
IV. Consequences of Communication Technologies on Culture and Education
V. Transnational Corporations and the Creation of Values and Citizenship
VI. The University as the Spearhead of Globalization
VII. Gender within Globalized Education
VIII. Agency and Resistance
IX. Envisaging the Future.