This 1,000 word review essay requires you to submit a critical response to two readings: Sklair’s paper just considered and another on the theme of the impact of 9/11 on how globalisation is thought about:
Reading:
Rizvi, F. (2004). Debating globalisation and education after September 11. Comparative Education, 40(2), 157-171.
Note: For this essay, focus on concepts of globalisation in general. In the next Module, we will turn to consider education specifically. In this essay, there is no need to discuss education in any detailed way.
A “critical response” is not necessarily negative. It involves identifying the key features of an argument, assessing the validity and relevance of claims made in support of it, and weighing up the overall strengths and weaknesses of the author’s position.
For this assignment, you are to respond critically to each paper individually before analyzing them together and exploring how the papers interact. In other words, analyse the ideas/arguments in one paper, then analyse the ideas/arguments in the other, and finally explore how these two papers relate, connect, contradict, overlap, etc.