TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tristan Bunnell
PY  - 2012
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653017977
TI  - Global Education Under Attack
T2  - International Baccalaureate in America
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-01797-7
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1046906
N2  - The three main programmes of the Geneva-registered International Baccalaureate (IB) have grown enormously since the 1990s and have seemingly found their ‘home’ in the United States. However, the IB has provoked opposition, initially from concerned parents, and lately by conservative agencies. This book charts the growth of the IB in America and offers a set of frameworks for conceptualizing the history and nature of this attack. It explores the distinctly paleo-conservative philosophy behind this attack, and reveals the influence of the American historian Russell Kirk, alongside Edmund Burke. The book examines the notion that the IB is un-American, and concludes that for some people in America global education is fundamentally unnatural and must be resisted.
KW  - United States, global citizenship, Paleo-conservatism, Russell Kirk, hyper-globalization, federal curriculum, global workership, global workers, Edmund Burke
LA  - English
ER  -