The Oxford Handbook of Education and Globalization
Mattei Paola, Dumay Xavier, Mangez Eric, Behrend Jacqueline
Oxford University Press
Globalization has become one of the most recurrent concepts in social and political sciences. More often than not, however, the concept is handled without much of a properly articulated theory capable of explaining its historical origin and expansion. For education researchers attempting to elucidate how global changes and processes affect their field of study, this situation is problematic.