GLOBALISATION IN EDUCATION

GLOBALISATION

IN EDUCATION

GROUP 1

FADILAALIA

MASTURAANIS

AMIRA

WORLD CLASS EDUCATION

Definition

Non-competitive system based on

national standards and benchmarks

that match international standards

1. A world class education system gives students the

“right and opportunity” to participate in school

governance, and in constructing the physical, social,

and cognitive school environment.

- Before this, students have no say in their own

learning.

- They participate in the development and

construction of their own learning and places of

learning

- In a word, they are empowered to take

ownership of their own learning.

2. A world class education capitalizes on student

engagement by giving students a curriculum that is

broad and flexible.

The significance

3.  A world class education system engages students in a

sustained and disciplined process of learning

- students are engaged in a learning process that asks them to

develop, review, evaluate and revise

4. A world class education system has a world orientation.

- its moves students and their learning beyond the walls

of their classrooms and even the borders of their country.

5. A world class education system develops the global

competence in its students.

- provides opportunities for students to experience other

countries and cultures in engaging and relevant ways.

World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students 

SMART SCHOOL IN MALAYSIA

- The Malaysian Smart School is a learning

institution that has been systemically

reinvented in terms of teaching-learning

practices and school management in order to

prepare children for the Information Age

- The Smart School Project was one of the

Malaysian Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC)

flagships *a time when large amounts of information are widely available to many people, largely through computer technology

The objectives of the Smart School, which are based on Malaysia's National Philosophy of Education, are as follows:

- To produce a thinking and technology-literate workforce.

- To democratise education

- To increase participation of stakeholders

- To provide all-round development of the individual

- To provide opportunities to enhance individual strengths and abilities

- to produce a new generation of IT-literate

Malaysians

who are :

• creative and innovative

• adapt with new technologies,

• able to access and manage information to

enhance the competitiveness and productivity

of the economy

Smart School in Malaysia

Sapura Smart School

Sekolah Sri KDU Damansara

K-ECONOMY@

KNOWLEDGE BASED ECONOMY

DEFINITION

“The knowledge based economy” is an expression coined to describe trends in advanced economies towards greater dependence on knowledge, information and high skill levels, and the increasing need for ready access to all of these by the business and public sectors.

- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

OECD, 2005, “The Measurement of Scientific and Technological Activities: Guidelines for Collecting and Interpreting Innovation Data: Oslo Manual, Third Edition” prepared by the Working Party of National Experts on Scientific and Technology Indicators, OECD, Paris, Para. 71.

The UK Department of Tradeand Industry defined K Economy as a knowledge driven economy in which the generation and exploitation of knowledge play the predominant role in the creation of wealth

(Economic ResearchServices Department, 2000)

Rationale of K- economy

1. To achieve sustainable rapid economic growth

- The knowledge based economy will complement efforts to improve economy-wide productivity through enhancement in TFP (Total Factory Productivity).

- The knowledge-based economy will also spawn new activities for investment within existing industries as well as create new industries.

- The introduction of high-technology and knowledge-intensive production processes will offer newinvestment opportunities within existing industries

2. To sustain competitiveness

- Malaysia is facing increasing competition for its labour-intensive and lower-end manufactured products from the lower-wage and resource-rich developing economies such as China, Indonesia and Thailand

-Malaysia will need undertake productivity improvements in traditional industries and at the same time, enhance its technological and knowledge capabilities to move into the midrange and higher-end products.

- It is also imperative for local industries to movealong the value chain into related upstream and downstream activities

THE STAR

PM: Government to continue with policies supporting knowledge-based economy

•The prime minister said, he believed in building a knowledge-based economy as one way for Malaysia to achieve sustainable growth and remain globally competitive

• He also mentioned that the government will focus on the social impact of the policies, and be aware of the government responsibility to ensure that the knowledge-based economy does not widen disparities between various sections of our society

KNOWLEDGE WORKER

- The term ‘knowledge worker’ describes someone who adds value by processing existing information to create new information that could be used to define and solve problems.

- Examples of knowledge workers include lawyers, doctors, diplomats, law-makers, software developers, managers and bankers.

- knowledge workers use their intellect to convert their ideas into products, services, or processes

Knowledge workers are versatile, autonomous,and highly skilled and are able to leverage andbuild knowledge to produce useful action withvery strong and analytical skills

The importance of Knowledge workers

• Key to the growth of many economies

- for example, in biotechnology manufacturing, or in

precision farming," where the amount of fertilizer

and pesticides administered to a given crop are carefully

monitored using GPS devices in tractors“

• Knowledge workers tend to be closely aligned

with the organization's growth prospects

- Knowledge workers in management roles

come up with new strategies

• Firms with the highest degree and quality of

knowledge work tend to be the fastest-growing

and most profitable

- for example, Microsoft is among the most

profitable organizations in the history of the

planet