Event Description
The Global Educational Discourse: What is the Focus and How Does it Vary?
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Education is seemingly the solution to all problems, but is this just a fad? Evidence shows that modern societies engage in rational processes to improve individuals and society, a process known as “scientization.” In order to understand why mass education becomes the de facto solution to so many non-education problems, this talk addresses mass education’s impact on and transformation through the phenomenon of scientization. First, the scientized educational discourse at the global level is analyzed through discourse analysis of multinational organizations’ policy documents and reports. Second, scientization of education in national policy documents is investigated using three national cases (Australia, Germany, and the USA). Findings suggest that a globally-scientized discourse about education exists, but that national variation reflects significantly-scientized-yet-contextually-rooted differences.
About the Speaker
Dr. Alexander W. Wiseman has more than 19 years of professional experience working with government education departments, university-based teacher education programs, community-based professional development for teachers and as a classroom teacher in both the U.S. and East Asia. Dr. Wiseman leads strategic planning workshops, informs educational policy development, provides evidence-based training programs, speaks internationally and presents extensively in the areas of international testing, teacher preparation and professional development, strategic planning, system assessment and reform, education policy, change management, equitable educational access for girls and boys, institutional capacity building, school-to-work transition and civic education. Dr. Wiseman conducts internationally comparative educational research using large-scale education datasets on math and science education, information and communication technology (ICT), teacher preparation, professional development and curriculum as well as school principal’s instructional leadership activity, and is the author of many research-to-practice articles and books. He is also the Series Editor of International Perspectives on Education and Society, Editor of the Annual Review of Comparative and International Education, and the Senior Editor of FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education.
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