The forces associated with globalization, whether economic or social, have conditioned the ways educators operate, and have profoundly altered people's experiences of both formal and informal education. Globalization, as a multidimensional, multilevel process, is unequivocally, but not exclusively, based on the economics of neoliberalism. This book chronicles new sites of tension in education that are a result of an ever-globalizing economy and its accompanying neoliberal practices in the United States, Costa Rica, and the US territories in the Caribbean. The contributions are grouped into two areas: institutionalized schooling practices and non-formal educational practices that focus on identities and language.

Introduction: The globalization and corporatization of education: the limits and liminality of the market mantra Denise Blum and Char Ullman 1. A good investment? Race, philanthrocapitalism and professionalism in a New York City small school of choice Amy Brown 2. Hip hop as empowerment: voices in El Alto, Bolivia Ariana Tarifa 3. The play of risk, affect, and the enterprising self in a fourth-grade classroom Steven Bialostok and George Kamberelis 4. English for the global: discourses in/of English-language voluntourism Cori Jakubiak 5. My grain of sand for society: neoliberal freedom, language learning, and the circulation of ideologies of national belonging Char Ullman 6. Floating migration, education, and globalization in the US Caribbean Mirerza González and Nadjah Ríos-Villarini 7. Neoliberalism and the demise of public education: the corporatization of schools of education Marta Baltodano