The Fallacies of Flatness: Thomas Friedman's "The World Is Flat"

Autor/inn/en	Abowitz, Kathleen Knight; Roberts, Jay
Titel	The Fallacies of Flatness: Thomas Friedman's "The World Is Flat"
Quelle	In: Journal of Philosophy of Education, 41 (2007) 3, S.471-481 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-8249
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9752.2007.00570.x
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Economics; Educational Philosophy; Educational Objectives; Figurative Language; Global Approach; Social Responsibility + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Volkswirtschaftslehre; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Globales Denken; Soziale Verantwortung
Abstract	Thomas Friedman's best-selling "The World is Flat" has exerted much influence in the west by providing both an accessible analysis of globalization and its economic and social effects, and a powerful cultural metaphor for globalization. In this review, we more closely examine Friedman's notion of the social contract, the moral center of his hopeful vision of a globalized world. While Friedman's social contract holds a more generous view of social and state obligation than his neoliberal economic analysis might otherwise allow, his fallacious assumptions about education rest on poorly argued claims about the nature of human beings, the proper aims of schooling, and meanings of justice in a globalized world. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10