Critical Review of Articles on Teaching against Globalization and Indigenous Research Methodology

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Article 1
The article “Teaching against Globalization and the New Imperialism: Toward a
Revolutionary Pedagogy” by McLaren and Farahmandpur (2001) primarily discuss teacher-
education reform in the United States from the perspective of critical pedagogy as well as the
globalisation of capitalism.
From the abstract of the article it is quite apparent that the globalisation of capitalism has
critically intensified the constant decline of education to a subsector of the financial system.
McLaren and Farahmandpur (2001) of the article begins the article by stating that the steady
well-established social, political as well as economic variances and antagonisms have led most
individuals serving the role of educators and cultural workers to create substitute to the judgment
of capitalist accumulation. The article further sheds light on the politics of neoliberalism which
typically overlooks the state of equilibrium and tries to maintain businesses in a healthy change.
Such change according to McLaren and Farahmandpur (2001) have led to the authorisation of a
series of uncertain practices and outcomes such as unrestricted availability to consumer markets
outsourcing as well as flexible organisations of labour and increasing centralisation of economic
as well as political influences. However, in order to support this claim McLaren and
Farahmandpur (2001) have focused on approaches of neoliberalism which focuses on
reimagining egalitarianism through the importance of the market discourse of financial
oligarchies into an elevating rate of broken democratic practices and further through the
valorization of assets and the unrestrained economic influence of private property. Drawing
relevance to the politics of neoliberalism McLaren and Farahmandpur (2001) in this article has
opposed to increase the oppression of the working class to unrestrained principle of democracy
as well as a decline to indulge the economy or provide obvious democratic agency.

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The article can be identified as a comprehensive one as it provides well-analysed
explanation of the way globalisation typically categorises and ideological concealment which
hide the diverse operations of imperialism. McLaren and Farahmandpur (2001) put important
importance on the privatization as well as commercialisation of public education and focuses on
the extent to which the content of teaching and curriculum under the unsafe power of the
changing social, economic as well as political relationships within the global capitalism spread.
In order to support the claims McLaren and Farahmandpur (2001) have emphasized on structure
of higher education which has been viewed as strengthening class any quality factor and exposes
public higher education to social as well as economic regulations which have been governed by
the laws of the market economy related to capital accumulation and commodification.
It is important to know that McLaren and Farahmandpur (2001) did not place any
argument for the association of different political parties under the leadership of one party, but
have emphasized that the attainable revolutionary praxis must have its occurrence as the
culmination of periodical procedures where by different social movements with different sensors
tend to develop and understanding and idea of each other's typically conflicting experiences as
the sufferers of societal dominance (McLaren & Rikowski, 2016). The article concludes by
referring to institution as an important form of intellectual labour as well as concrete social
practice which has further been regarded.