Globalization
And
Education
Globalization
Refers to an increasing
interconnectedness and
convergence of activities and
forms of life among diverse
cultures throughout the world
Globalization: A Theory and a Process
As a theory, globalization seeks to
explain the integration of economics and
societies around the world as the knit
together by travel, language, values and
ideas, trade labor, and financial flows
communication and technology
Globalization: As a Process
Globalization affects all countries,
some more favorably than the
others in terms of economic
growth, national sovereignty, and
cultural identity. (Wood, 2008)
Education System:
Core of the Globalization
Process
• Education System
- Constitute the core of the
globalization process
Global Education and Globalization
- Global Education extends students awareness of
the world in which they live by opening them to
diverse heritage of human thoughts and action and
creativity.
- Globalization links individuals and institutions
across the world with unprecedented
interconnection.
Characteristics of Globalization That Can Be Linked To
Education
• Educational terms
- there is a growing understanding that neo-liberal
version of globalization, particularly as implemented by
bilateral, multilateral, and international organizations, is
reflected in an educational agenda that privileges, if not
only directly imposes, particular policies for evaluation,
financing, assessment, standards, teacher training,
curriculum, instruction and testing
•Economic Terms
- A rise in internationalized advertising and
consumption patterns;
- A reduction in barriers to free flow of goods,
workers and investments across national borders;
- correspondingly, new pressures on the role of
workers and consumer in society
•Political Terms
- Certain loss of nation-state
sovereignty
•Cultural Terms
- Tension between the ways in which
globalization brings forth more
standardization and cultural
homogeneity, while also bringing more
fragmentation through the rise of locally
oriented movements.
Globalization has various aspects
which affect the world in a variety
of ways(San Juan, et al 2007)
Industrial Trans-nationalization
- Refers to the rise and expansion of
multinational and transnational enterprises
Financial Globalization
- Refers to the emergence of worldwide
financial markets and better access to external
financing for corporate, national, sub-national
borrowers
Political Globalization
- Refers to the spread of political sphere of interests
to the regions and countries outside the
neighborhood of political (state and non-state)actors
and the potential formation of a global citizen
movement
Informational Globalization
- Refers to the increase in information flows between
geographically remote locations
Cultural Globalization
- Refers to the growth of cross-cultural contacts
where people of the world get a better
understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity
and plurality
Globalism
- Refers to the universal, internationalist impulse that
the world is connected
Socio-Cultural Issues on
Globalization
•Massive Migration
•Managing differences
•Global changes in culture
Economic Issues on
Globalization
•Sighting education at economic
level
Political issues on Globalization
•Roles of educational institutions
in addressing political problems
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
• Globalization has a wide ranging potential to influence all
sectors of development
- the needed reforms within the educational system like
content, equity, and excellence, etc.,
- the fall out of globalization, which will entail determining
strategies relating to the impending internationalization of
education, finance-related issues, and privatization of
secondary and higher education
What are these needed reforms in
education?
1. Content of Education
A. Curriculum Up-gradation- the modern
advances in information technology have
revolutionized among others, the content of
knowledge and the process of educational
transaction
B Productivity Orientation. - the basic
objective of globalization is to enhance
productivity and to make the educational
system an instrument in preparing students
who can complete in the world markets as
productive members of the society.
2. The Fall out of Globalization
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.
C. Privatization of secondary and higher
education– As a corollary to the suggestions
about reducing public investment in secondary
and higher education, a plea has been made to
hand over these sectors to private bodies.
Impact on Education
Impact on Education
• It will mean or more competitive and deregulative
educational system.
• With more pressure on it to assure that the next
generation of workers are prepared for some
amorphous job market of 21st century.
• Educational system will increasingly provide the sites
of struggle over the meaning and power of national
identity and a national culture.
Thank You!!!
By:
Jessa dela Peña