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- Title
Phantasmagoria of the global learner: Unlikely global learners and the hierarchy of learning.
- Authors
Doerr, Neriko Musha
- Abstract
Though the concept 'global learner' has become a buzzword in education, few have critically analysed it. This article examines three types of 'unlikely global learners' who are not usually considered global learners even though they could be, according to a current definition: Ma-ori-English bilingual students in Aotearoa/New Zealand; an American student who studied abroad in the U.K. in ways not valued in the dominant study-abroad discourse of immersion and immigrant English-as-a-Second-Language students in the U.S. I analyse what their erasure as global learners tells us, arguing that the notion of global learner acts as what Walter Benjamin calls a phantasmagoria that masks the power relations involved. Though critical of 'global learners' as a globalist concept, I call for expanding the notion in order to engage with current transformations in education.
- Subjects
PHANTASMAGORIA; ENGLISH as a foreign language; EDUCATION of indigenous peoples; FOREIGN study; IMMIGRANTS
- Publication
Learning & Teaching (1755-2273), 2017, Vol 10, Issue 2, p58
- ISSN
1755-2273
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/latiss.2017.100206