- Title
- Urban education, work, and social mobility in Oceania: world-systems patterns, and limits, for peripheral zones
- Creator
- Griffiths, Tom G.
- Relation
- Second International Handbook of Urban Education, Volume 1 p. 933-943
- Relation
- Springer International Handbooks of Education
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40317-5
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- This chapter considers the question of urbanization and urban education in Oceania, from a world- systems analysis perspective. This is set first in the context of well-established ideas of upward social mobility through education, and how this logic has extended historically to the idea of nations, and even regions, experiencing upward mobility in the world-economy, in part through investments in education. The chapter then reviews a world-systems analysis perspective on the question of urbanization as a global historical trend linked to the relocation of production from core to semi- peripheral and peripheral states within the world-economy. This extends to the long-term move towards fully proletarianised labour associated with growing urbanization, and the nature of the relocated production activity maintaining flows of global surplus to the core. On this basis, we argue that understanding urbanization, and urban education, work and social mobility in the geographical region of Oceania, requires an historical view that locates these processes within the secular trends of the capitalist world-economy. The particular histories of nation-states in Oceania, as former colonies, providers of raw materials and cheap labour to international commodity chains, shifts attention to the world-system and its transformation in understanding regional developments.
- Subject
- world-systems analysis; critical education; world-economy; development; human capital
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1398695
- Identifier
- uon:34479
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783319403151
- Language
- eng
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