Globalization and education

GLOBALIZATION

EDUCATION

GLOBALIZATION AND EDUCATION

GLOBALIZATION

Most often used to describe the growing integration of economics worldwide through increases in trade,investment flows,and technology transfer.

One could think that globalization is only a matter of industry and business,and that education as a moral process is not part of his development.

Education system constitute the core of the globalization process.

GLOBALIZATION

refers to an increasing interconnectedness and convergence of activities and forms of life among diverse cultures throughout the world

GLOBAL EDUCATION vs. GLOBALIZATION

GLOBALIZATIONlinks individuals and

institutions across the world with unprecedented interconnection

Characteristics of

“GLOBALIZATION” that can be link to

“EDUCATION”

EDUCATIONAL TERMSECONOMIC TERMSPOLITICAL TERMSCULTURAL TERMS

ASPECTS OF

GLOBALIZATIO

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INDUSTRIAL GLOBALIZATION(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 and 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 potencial formation of a global citizen movement

INFORMATIONAL GLOBALIZATION

-refers to the increase in information flows between geographically remote locations

--refers to the growth of cross-cultural contacts.

-people of the world get a better understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity and plurality

CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION

GLOBALISM

-refers to the universal,internationalist impulse that the world is connected.

-refers to the connection between cultures,nations, and people ;embodies cultural diffusion,the desire to consume and enjoy fpreign products and ideas,adopt new technologies and practices,and participate in “world culture”

IMPLICATION OF GLOBAL

INFORMATIONSOCIETY IN THE

EDUCATION SYSTEM

Demand for widening the education access for all.

Continuous lifelong learning. Global versus local cultural developments. Creation of new educational management

from hierarchical institutions to equal distributions of network organizations , from commanding to negotiating.

Demand for more flexible and general.