Culture, Transnational Education and Thinking

Niranjan Casinader is a lecturer in curriculum and assessment in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate units across primary and secondary teacher education. His research interests focus on the impact of the historical and contemporary globalisation of education on curriculum, pedagogy and leadership, with particular reference to culture, problem-solving capacity, humanities education and postcolonialism. He has been concerned with thinking education for over twenty years, and is currently involved in the leadership of a nonprofit organisation concerned with the teaching of thinking and problem-solving skills at both the Australian and global levels. In 2013, Niranjan was presented with the AARE Early Career Researcher Award, and in 2014 he received the Emerging Researcher Fellowship Award and the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (Monash University, Australia).

• 1. Exploring the ‘Other’ in Thinking 2. Culture, Education, Thinking and Transnationalism 3. The New Globalisers of Thinking Education 4. A Question of Balance: The Researching of Cross-Culturalism 5. Ways of the World: Nest of Thinking Cultures 6. Cultural Dispositions of Thinking 7. The Trinity of Culture-Thinking-Education: Implications for Global Schooling 8. Cultural Metaphors of Thinking: Can You Tell Me Where My Country Lies?

'In many ways, this book engages with age-old questions such as how can we make new curricular interventions ‘teacher proof’ – and presents an excellent picture of how educators (and students) transformed the original intentions of the thinking skills programme to emphasise the aspects which fitted best with their context. I suspect that the book will become ever more relevant, as we grapple with the challenges of more diversity in our classrooms in the years to come. Its value will be in providing alternative analytical tools and lenses for comparing our assumptions about thinking, education and culture – rather than providing a blueprint for future educational systems.' - Anna Robinson-Pant, University of East Anglia'In a way that is both distinctive and accessible, Casinader's book is a major contribution to the debates about how education might enhance their global futures.' - Fazal Rizvi, Professor in Global Studies of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia