Between Faith and Science: World Culture Theory and Comparative Education

Autores/as

  • Stephen Carney Roskilde University, Dinamarca
  • Jeremy Rappleye Kyoto University, Japón
  • Iveta Silova Lehigh University, USA

Palabras clave:

world culture theory, , neo-institutionalism, ideology, neo-liberalism

Resumen

World culture theory seeks to explain the apparent educational convergence through a neoinstitutionalist lens, seeing global rationalization in education as driven by the logic of science and the myth of progress. While critics have challenged these assumptions by focusing on local manifestations of world-level tendencies, such critique is comfortably accommodated within world culture theory. We approach the debate from a fresh perspective by examining its ideological foundations. We also highlight its shift from notions of myth and enactment toward advocacy for particular models, and we show that world culture theory can become normative, while obscuring our view of policy convergence. Finally, we critique the methods and evidence in world culture research. We argue that such research, while failing to support its own claims, actually produces world culture, as its assumptions and parameters create the very image of consensus and homogeneity that world culture theorists expect scholars to accept ― in faith ― as empirically grounded

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Publicado

2013-04-01

Cómo citar

Carney, S., Rappleye, J., & Silova, I. (2013). Between Faith and Science: World Culture Theory and Comparative Education. Profesorado, Revista De Currículum Y Formación Del Profesorado, 17(1), 243–267. Recuperado a partir de https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/profesorado/article/view/19459