a globalization and education
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• What is globalization?
• Globalization and Education nexus:• Changes and Challenges.
• Based on popular phrases and not on empirical research, facts and figures.
What is globalisation?
Early phase: Colonialism supported by gun powder and navigation.– … Empire where sun never sets.
Modern phase: A socio-political, economic and technological evolution towards a closely integrated global society: – Global Village.
Political: Dictatorship to Democracy Economic: Socialism to Capitalism Technological: Stone, Iron, Wheel, Coal-
Petroleum to Information
Determinants of Globalization: Capitalism
End of “cold war” lead to capitalism beyond national borders.
Capitalist/ Market Economic System– Individualism– Commoditization– Financial profit– Free trade (commodities as well as resources)
Brain drain to muscle drain– Darwinian law of evolution: Survival of the fittest.
Has capitalism failed with the global fiancial crisis? – Will nationalism take over globalism?
Determinants of Globalization: Information Technology
Easy and speedy access to information– Made possible through satellite and
computer technology (WWW). A complement to capitalist economic
system. The snake mate of capitalism and IT
lead to birth of globalization.
Globalization phrased
Global village. World without nations. Nation as a lines on a map. Shrinking space, time with disappearing
national borders linking people. (3% of people live outside of own nation)
Dreams from my father … Barack Obama– A world, where one would not know where he would
be buried.
Globalization: Capitalism and Education
Education breaching national boundaries (Trade in Education).– Brain drain.– International market for education.
Extending Education to Expatriates. 30% of students in Australia are foreign students. Education in Australia cost OR 35,000 per course.
Globalization: Capitalism and Education
Competition: Survival of the fittest.– Competition is global.
Learn to be modest winners and gracious loosers in a human environment (not screen environment).
Loosing jobs: An average American changes 6 jobs during life time.– Flexible knowledge– Life long education– Learn to learn in school
Globalization:Capitalism and Education
Commoditization of education– Education supplied by the private sector for profits
as a private good and not by the public sector as a public good.
Education for jobs (factor of production).– Increased specialization.
Therefore application needs leadership and teams.– Knowledge looses its value as a source of pleasure.
Education for profit may marginalize the poor.– Education is the 2nd largest industry in USA worth
10% of GDP.
Globalization:IT and Education
IT has made formal education more “effective”.– Multimedia presentation technology substituting
chalk and board. IT has breached norms of formal education
(place and time).– On line/ distance learning
Learning at home at any time Requires IT skills to provide education and
access education.
Globalization:Culture and Education
Language is a part of culture (6000 languages).
Globalization is homogenising language or demanding multi-linguistic capabilities.– English the global language?– Symbolism the global language (1 or 0 the
digital language to SMS language.
Globalization:Culture and Education
Globalization leads to a cultural curry (cultural blend/ melting pot).
– President Obama is a black-American, farther Muslim Kenyan, mother Christian American, a sister Indonesian, others Kenyan, … A story of race and inheritance in a global village.
Education needs to recognize such – in the educational process and – in the educational output.
Students needs to empathise – with students of other cultures in the learning
environment and – finally in the work place and society.