This volume explores the role of the education sector in our globalized knowledge economy and considers the political implications of this in terms of monopolarity and the cultural consequences of homogenization and Americanization.

Introduction1. Trends in Globalisation, David Coulby and Evie ZambetaPart 1: Globalisation and the Knowledge Economy2. The Knowledge Economy: Technology and Characteristics, David Coulby3. The Knowledge Economy: Institutions, David CoulbyPart 2: Tradition and Modernity 4. The Survival of Nationalism in a Globalised System, Evie Zambeta5. Education, National Identity and Religion in Japan, Shibata Masako Part 3: Globalisation and Education Policy6. Travelling and Embedded Policy: the Case of Post-Devolution Scotland within the UK, Jenny Ozga7. Europeanisation and Education Policy, Nafsika Alexiadou8. Swedish, European, Global, Lisbeth Lundahl9. Globalising Differences: Inclusion, Special Needs and the Education Marketplace, Philip Garner, Christopher Blake, Suchitra Narayan10. Teaching and the Globalisation of Knowledge, Leslie BashPart 4: Globalisation and Nationalism: Post-Colonial Perspectives11. Globalisation and the Narrative of Civilisation: Greece as Curricular Construct, David Coulby12. Globalised History in a Nationalist Context: the Curricular Construction of Greece, Evie Zambeta13. The Global and the National: Inclusive Knowledge and Linguistic Diversity, Jagdish Gundara14. Negotiating Nation: Globalisation and Knowing, Zane MaRhea and Terri Seddon15. Cultural Relativism and Cultural Imperialism in a Globalised Economy and Monopolar Polity, David Coulby