TY - BOOK AU - Suárez-Orozco,Marcelo M. TI - Learning in the global era: international perspectives on globalization and education SN - 9780520254343 (cloth : alk. paper) PY - 2007/// CY - Berkeley, [New York] PB - University of California Press, Ross Institute KW - Sociología de la educación KW - Educación y globalización KW - Política educativa KW - Igualdad de oportunidades en la enseñanza KW - Enseñanza superior KW - Tecnología educativa KW - Aprendizaje KW - Education and globalization KW - Education and state KW - Educational change KW - Educational equalization KW - Education KW - Effect of technological innovations on KW - Learning N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Learning in the global era / Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco and Carolyn Sattin -- From teaching globalization to nurturing global consciousness / Veronica Boix Mansilla and Howard Gardner -- Understanding cultural patterns / Peter Gärdenfors -- Mind, brain and education in the era of globalization / Tami Katzir, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, and Kurt W. Fischer -- Social conduct, neurobiology, and education / Hanna Damasio and Antonio Damasio -- The global spread of women's schooling : effects on learning, literacy, health, and children / Robert A. LeVine -- Globalization and education : can the world meet the challenge? / Bernard Hugonnier -- How computerized work and globalization shape human skill demands / Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane -- The postindustrial workplace and challenges to education / Kai-ming Cheng -- On the need for teaching intercultural skills : challenges for education in a globalizing world / Rita Süssmuth -- The integration of immigrant youth / Maurice Crul -- The education of immigrant students in a globalized world : policy debates in a comparative perspective / Marie McAndrew -- First-language and -culture learning in light of globalization : the case of Muslims in Flanders and in the Brussels area, Belgium / Eugeen Roosens -- Rethinking honor in regards to human rights : an educational imperative in troubled times / Unni Wikan ER -