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What is Globalization?
Globalization
• Educational Terms
• Economic Terms
– Is the increasing economic interdependence of
national economies across the world through a
rapid increase in cross-border movement of
goods, service, technology, and capital.
Political Terms
• Under globalization, politics can take place above the
state through political integration schemes such as
the European Union and through intergovernmental
organizations such as the International Monetary
Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade
Organization. Political activity can also transcend
national borders through global movements and
NGOs. Civil society organizations act globally by
forming alliances with organizations in other
countries, using global communications systems, and
lobbying international organizations and other actors
directly, instead of working through their national
governments.
Cultural Terms
• Refers to the transmission of ideas, meanings
and values across national borders. This
process is marked by the spread of
commodities and ideologies, which become
standardized around the world. Mass
consumption serves as a facilitator between
different people and cultures around the
globe as a result of the exponential growth of
the human population.
Aspects of
Globalization
Aspects of Globalization
1. Industrial Globalization, Trans-Nationalization
– refers to the rise and expansion of multinational
and transnational enterprises
2. Financial Globalization
– refers to the emergence of world wide financial
markets and better access to external financing for
corporate,, national and sub-national borrowers
3. Political Globalization
– refers to the spread of political sphere of
interests to the regions and countries outside
the neighborhood of political actors and the
potential formation of a global citizen movement
4. Information Globalization
– refers to the increase in information flows
between geographically remote locations
5. Cultural Globalization
– refers to the growth of cross-cultural contacts
6. Globalism
– refers to the universal internationalist impulse
that the world is connected
Implication of Global Information
Society in the Education System
• Demands for widening the education access for all.
• Continuous lifelong learning
• Global versus local cultural development
• Creation of new educational networked
organization
• Changing the educational management from
hierarchical institutions to equal distributions of
network organizations from commanding to
negotiating
• Demand for more flexible and general skills
What are the Core Values and
Competencies for Global Education?
Core Values Core Skills and Competencies
• Worldwide inequality
• Consistency and quality of educational
experiences remain patchy
• Secondary education in developing countries
remains quite weak
• New technologies of globalization
3. Political Issues
• Families
• Education system
Experiences of youth will be linked to:
• Economic realities
• Social processes
• Cultural flows
Roles of education
• Education will need both rethinking and
restructuring if schooling is to best prepare the
children and the youth of the world to engage
globalization’s new challenges, opportunities and
costs.
• Education should shape the cognitive skills,
interpersonal sensibilities, and cultural
sophistication of children and youth whose lives
will be both engaged in local contexts and
responsive to larger transnational process.
Globalization and its Impact on
Education
A. Internationalization of education
– This has become a worldwide phenomenon
because of the entry World Trade Organization
(WTO) and the inclusion of educational services
under the General Agreement on Trade and
Services (GATS) which has given a boost to the
internationalization of higher education.
B. Finance-related issues
– In order to be a part of global configuration,
the requirement of funds for social services
including education win increase manifold.