The owl spreads its wings: global and international education within the local from critical perspectives

Citation

Swanson DM (2013) The owl spreads its wings: global and international education within the local from critical perspectives. In: Hebert Y & Abdi A (eds.) Critical Perspectives on International Education. Comparative and International Education: A Diversity of Voices, 15. Rotterdam: Sense, pp. 333-348. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-6091-906-0_24

Abstract
Within an era of a New Knowledge Society, assumptions abound regarding the ‘goodness' and justice of global interconnections and distributions of knowledge through international educational organizations and structures worldwide. Just as George Bush Jr. in attempting to justify the invasion of Iraq made claim to the democratic goodness of the US ‘spreading their freedoms' in the interests of an all-encompassing democratization of the world, so the assumption that sharing educational knowledge, especially an ‘all-knowing North' with a ‘helpless South' is without question for the greater good of all humanity.