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1. Module Two
What are the educational issues facing Australian education in
a global society?
2. This module aims to:
explore issues currently impacting on Australian education
understand the research-practice nexus
identify a topic for further investigation in your
assignment
extend your information literacy skills
3. A Globalised World
A world characterised by accelerated international flows of
goods, capital, labour, services, and information that have
occurred in response to improved transport, the seemingly limitless
revolution in communications technologies, and the deregulatory
policies adopted in many countries during the past two decades
(Green, 1999, p. 57)
Time-space compression
Global consciousness
(Singh, 2004)
4. Dimensions of Globalisation
Economic
Political
global-national-local; the role of the citizen
Cultural
standardisation & fragmentation ; cultural homogeneity
& cultural heterogeneity