Global Issues in Education bridges the discourse on globalization and education with international studies on race, class, gender, ethnicity, culture, and multiculturalism. The contributors to this volume address educational challenges of post-colonial Ghana, the United Arab Emirates, the Caribbean, China, and Germany juxtaposed against Western education in the United Kingdom and the United States. They synthesize macrosociology with educational research, which provides readers with the background, core knowledge, and global focus that is needed to understand international issues, as well as deal with diversity in the classroom. Global Issues in Education also addresses the need for additional research that makes the connections between the geopolitical economy and education, and it does this with a focus on the link to culture, ethnicity, and education.

Contributions by: Ruth Ahn, Stephen Bahry, Patrick Darkhor, Joan DeJaeghere, Linda Furuto, Charles B. Hutchison, Daniel Kirk, Jungmin Seo, Jia Luo, Jody Lynn McBrien, Luise Prior McCarty, Obed Mfum-Mensah, Shirley Miske, Kwabena Dei Ofori-Attah, Debora Hinderliter Ortloff, Theresa Perez, JoAnn Phillion, Lan Quach, Alicia Trotman, Jean Walrond, Yuxiang Wang, Kenneth Wilburn