1. Defining Globalization and Assessing Its Implications on Knowledge and Education / Nelly P. Stromquist and Karen Monkman -- 2. Globalization and Internationalism: Democratic Prospects for World Education / Philip W. Jones -- 3. Globalization and Educational Reform / Martin Carnoy -- 4. Educational Reform: Who Are the Radicals? / Val D. Rust -- 5. Globalization and Curriculum Inquiry: Locating, Representing, and Performing a Transnational Imaginary / Noel Gough -- 6. Globalization and the Social Construction of Reality: Affirming or Unmasking the "Inevitable"? / Catherine A. Odora Hoppers -- 7. Alternative Responses to Globalization from European and South African Universities / Jan Currie and George Subotzky -- 8. Globalization of the Community College Model: Paradox of the Local and the Global / Rosalind Latiner Raby -- 9. Local/Global Labor Markets and the Restructuring of Gender, Schooling, and Work / Jane Kenway and Peter Kelly -- 10. Globalization, Adult Education, and Development / Shirley Walters -- 11. Globalization and Universities in the Commonwealth Caribbean / Anne Hickling-Hudson -- 12. Internationalization in Japanese Education: Current Issues and Future Prospects / Lynne Parmenter -- 13. Globalization and Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Focus Lesotho / William M. Rideout, Jr. -- 14. Globalization and Educational Policies in Mexico, 1988-1994: A Meeting of the Universal and the Particular / Rosa Nidia Buenfil -- 15. South African Higher Education in Transition: Global Discourses and National Priorities / Crain Soudien and Carol Corneilse -- 16. The Impacts of Globalization on Education in Malaysia / Molly N. N. Lee -- 17. "Hanging onto the Edge": An Australian Case Study of Women, Universities, and Globalization / Jill Blackmore