Globalization, Corporatism, and Critical Language Education

Culture and Language Education

There are different views on the relationship between language and culture. Some consider them as separate entities one being a code-system and the other a system of beliefs and attitudes. Some believe in a cause and effect relationship between the two; and yet others argue for a co-evolutionary mode of interrelation. This paper will subscribe to the Hallidayan co-evolutionary view of the relat...

Sustainable, Development, Education and Globalization

Critical Globalization Studies

If academics and intellectuals are to play a meaningful part in addressing the urgent issues that humanity faces in the twenty-first century—those of war and peace, social justice, democracy, cultural diversity, and ecological sustainability—it is incumbent upon us to gain an analytical understanding of globalization as the underlying structural dynamic that drives social, political, economic, ...

Corporatism and job satisfaction

Phelps, Edmund, and Zoega, Gylfi—Corporatism and job satisfaction We introduce reported job satisfaction as a measure of economic performance and find it positively correlated with GDP per capita and the labor force participation rate in a sample of OECD countries and negatively correlated with unemployment. Moreover, we find that many measures of corporatism, which we define in the wider sense...

Quality, Standards and Globalization in Higher Education

Higher education, science, and technology have always been international endeavors, but have acquired new dimensions and features in recent years. This paper describe these features in terms of some key characteristics of American higher education – general education at the undergraduate level, organized graduate schools, and the expansion of the private sector. As these features spread through...