Department of Educational Leadership and Policy EDUCATIONAL CULTURE, POLICY AND SOCIETY BROWN BAG SERIES PRESENTS Discourses of Asia Rising and the Dynamics of New Class Formation in Elite Schools Fazal Rizvi Professor in Global Studies in Education at the University of Melbourne/ Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign PLEASE JOIN US NOON […]
Department of Educational Leadership and Policy
EDUCATIONAL CULTURE, POLICY AND SOCIETY
BROWN BAG SERIES
PRESENTS
Discourses of Asia Rising and the Dynamics of
New Class Formation in Elite Schools
Fazal Rizvi
Professor in Global Studies in Education at the University of Melbourne/
Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PLEASE JOIN US
NOON – 1:30PM
FRIDAY, APRIL 11TH
479 BALDY HALL
In recent years, a triumphalist discourse about the rise of Asia as an economic and political power has emerged in many parts of Asia. This discourse expresses a post-colonial confidence that suggests that the legacies of colonialism have finally been washed out, and that, in an era of globalization, Asian societies will continue to grow in stature. This confidence is widely, though not uniformly, found among the Asian middle class residing in metropolitan areas. In this paper, I want to use data collected from a large international project examining the dynamics of new class formations in elite schools established during the 19th century in the image of British public schools to explore some of the ways in which the elite schools in Asia relate to the discourse of ‘Asia rising’. In particular, I want to discuss how the discourse of ‘Asia rising’ constitutes a social imaginary through which elite schools in Asia are now negotiating the forces of globalization, making global connections in order to position themselves in a transnational space of privilege.
Fazal Rizvi was educated in India, Australia and the UK, and is currently a professor in Global Studies in Education at the University of Melbourne and an emeritus professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. He is also a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a board member of the Asia Education Foundation. He has published extensively on issues of identity and culture in transnational contexts, theories of globalization and education policy and more recently Indian higher education. His latest book is Encountering Education in the Global.
This event is co-sponsored by The Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education.
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