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Editor in Chief Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences Editor in Chief: Otto F. von Feigenblatt, M.A., F.R.A.S. Ko Yiu Chung, Ph.D. Professor, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific 1420 High Point Way SW Suite B, University (Beppu, Japan) Delray Beach, Florida 33445 (USA) Senior Fellow, Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences Associate Editors: Robert A.C. Salazar, Ph.D. Anthony P. Johnson, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate Professor, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (Beppu, Japan) Isiaka Alani Badmus, M.S., Ph.D. Candidate Senior Fellow, Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences University of New England (Australia) and the International University of Humanities Joseph Tse-Hei LEE, Ph.D. and Social Sciences (San Jose, Costa Rica) Professor of History, Pace University (New Editorial Assistants: York, USA) Vannapond Suttichujit, M.Ed., M.Ed. Dip Kapoor, Ph.D. Associate Professor of International Jaime Archicano, B.S. 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Doctoral Student, Tohoku University (Sendai, - Open J-Gate Japan) - getCITED Advisory Board: - Google Scholar Nolan Quiros, Ph.D Vice President for Academic Affairs, University for International Cooperation (San Jose, Costa Rica) H.E Phillip von Feigenblatt, Count of Kobrin Itinerant Ambassador of Panama to the Middle East, Former Ambassador of Panama to Egypt and to Libya, Former Minister of Tourism of the Republic of Panama H.E Morris von Feigenblatt, Baron of Feigenblatt-Miller Former Consul General of Costa Rica to Alicante, Spain Malcom Cooper, Ph.D Vice President, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (Beppu, Japan) H.E Marian Count Voss de Cousances (Houston, USA) Contact Information: [email protected] [email protected] http://www.japss.org 1420 High Point Way SW Suite B, ISSN (Print): 1944-1088 http://www.japss.org ISSN: (Electronic): 1944-1096 Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences (2010) Vol 2, Special Issue No 1 Globalization, Development and Education in Africa and Asia/Pacific: Critical Perspectives Guest Editor: Dr. Dip Kapoor, University of Alberta, Canada Editorial Introduction Globalization, Development and Education in Africa and Asia/Pacific: Critical Perspectives Dip Kapoor, Associate Professor, University of Alberta, (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) It is my pleasure to introduce the first Special Edition of JAPSS; an interdisciplinary collection of articles dedicated to addressing education/learning, educational analysis and research pertaining to the African and Asia/Pacific regions. More specifically, these refereed articles consider research and analysis pertaining to the imbrications of neoliberal/globalization (the globalization of capitalism), development (or the post-war interventionist project initiated by the colonial/imperial powers and “Third World elite” who inherited the colonial mantel) and education (in it’s dominant form, predominantly an uncritical-reproductive exercise in the importation of Eurocentric non/formal schooling/knowledge, albeit with localized variations) in these regions. Given the post-independence foundational project of inter/national development and the most recent wave of neoliberal/globalization, all contributors have tried to give due consideration to examining education/learning in relation to social, political, religio-cultural and/or economic trajectories unleashed by these international/global projects and their neo/colonial, internal colonial and/or anti/imperialist implications for the peoples of these regions and related resistances/reformulations for renewal and possibility, i.e., the collection foregrounds such critical perspectives on the intersections between education/learning, neoliberal/globalization and development with the view to illuminate colonial/imperial ambitions and the related and on-going politics of educational, socio-cultural and political-economic resistances, alternatives and re-formulations. The articles include a mix of critical-analytical reflections utilizing pertinent educational and inter- disciplinary social science literatures, primary/critical- interpretive research-based reports/analyses and/or analyses that are informed by direct experience. The range of actors/spaces of education/learning considered include: schools, institutions of higher education, NGOs, social movements/struggles and local communities, subsequently embracing education/learning in all it’s garbs/compartments—formal, nonformal, informal/incidental, popular and indigenous/local. The contributions address and have implications for interdisciplinary and education/learning specific action/practice, policy, theorization and political praxis. In keeping with these emphases, the collection considers “formal contexts” of education in Part I and “social movement/action, NGO and community contexts” in Part II. The collection is consistent with the JAPSS emphasis on amplifying critical and/or interpretive research traditions, scholarship by diasporic and Asian/African
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