SECTION 3Directions: Each passage in this group is followed by questions based on its cont
SECTION 3
Directions: Each passage in this group is followed by questions based on its content. After reading a passage, choose the best answer to each question. Answer all questions following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.
Trends toward reform. highlight the international appeal of decentralization,
but the realities of educational and social inequity remain the same or worsen
even when such reforms are put into place, especially in the ways in which
Line educational quality is being defined. A major question remains: if education
(5) continues to be ineffective in achieving greater social good, what role has the
dialectic between global and local to play in the eminent failure of education for
social transformation? All too often the work of sociologists criticizes the
hegemony of the globalizing idea and its relationship to local forms of belief and
practice, while blithely assuming that the indigenous challenge and respond to
(10) the external meta-narrative but retain a fundamental innocence with respect to
that narrative. I argue that instead cultures, nations, and societies utilize the
global theme to further reinforce and create new categories of the exotic and the
other-even within their own borders-to support internally generated and
maintained inequities.
The primary purpose of the passage is to
A.build a case for increasing efforts to improve educational quality in indigenous societies
B.advocate an alternative to the explanation that the inequity of indigenous societies has resulted from outside forces
C.explain the failure of educational reforms in increasing the international appeal of decentralization of global authority
D.suggest the type of response to globalization that would help create social equity in indigenous societies
E.argue against the definition of globalization currently advocated by sociologists