Mohd Izzudin Abd Rahim

Impact of Globalization
on Education
Commodification and De-localisation
Commodification
Definition
 Commodification (or commoditization) is the
transformation of goods and services
(or things that may not normally be regarded as
goods or services) into a commodity. –wiki
 Turning what is normally a non-commodity into a
commodity. -www.pcusa.org
 In other words, to say certain things have become
"commodified" is to say they are now valued
primarily for their commercial value. -
users.california.com
COMMODITY
 A commodity is a good/services for which
there is demand.
 its price is determined as a function of its
market as a whole.
IN EDUCATION
 A knowledge culture that has existed for
centuries at universities has been labelled
“traditional”. [mode 1 curriculum]
 Spoon-fed
 content was finest
 student generally was a passive recipient in
the teaching -learning process
 With the influence of modernisation and more
recently globalisation, another knowledge culture
has emerged in which application and the practical
value of content is considered to be as important as
the content itself.- “emerging”
[mode 2 curriculum]
 emphasises active participation on part of both
student and university tutor.
NOW
 These trends have lead to what is known as
the commodification of higher education,
where knowledge is mainly perceived as a
commodity to be bought by the consumer.
 In response to the trend towards
commodification, universities and other
academic institutions have developed new
roles as providers of commercial and
business expertise, so making
commodification their central field.
 At a certain point in what had been a steady,
slow expansion, large numbers of people
started to feel they really had better get a
degree, because not doing so would be such
a bad move. The first wave set off another
and so on.
 Many governments have actively supported
such developments either
 directly ;

 Singapore
 Malaysia
 indirectly
De-localisation
Definition
 To remove from a native or usual locality.
 To broaden the range or scope of.
 to free from local influences
-www.thefreedictionary.com
 moving away from local requirements that are
believed to be irrelevant, outdated, or
constricting.
-Yahoo.com
 To fulfil the globalization, some local attributes
must be assimilated with outside one.
 It is to bring a new idea and to blend it with the
old/local/usual situation because the old one is
not appropriate anymore/it is holding back the
development.
 A further degree of delocalization has occurred as
a result of scares around child protection and
truancy.
 While schools might be local, access to the
neighbourhood and of neighbours to the school
has been restricted. -fence
 the school is somehow separated from the
community where it is located - and this is
further intensified by the regime of testing and
centralized curriculum construction that has been
the hallmark of the UK education system since
the early 1980s.
 Example
 In order to realise the potential of higher
education institutions for regions, there is a
requirement to bring together all regional
education providers to reduce duplicative
functions, enhance collaborative provision and
create a regional learning system by expanding
the overall size of the education market.
LOCAL

FOREIGN

FOREIGN
 Outsourcing and offshoring activities are creating
a new international division of labour, which
should be beneficial for consumers worldwide
and both host and home parties involved.
 Offshoring, which implies that the firms
retains the ownership of the whole of the
production process while locating parts of their
activities abroad via the setting up of
subsidiaries. ->Intra-firm
 (International) Outsourcing, which implies
contracting out parts of the production process
to external suppliers located in another country
-> Inter-firm
Reference
 http://www.paulchatterton.com
 answers.yahoo.com
 http://www.ifri.org/files/Economie/Elargisse
ment_Veugelers.pdf en.wikipedia.org
 users.california.com/
 www.pcusa.org
 http://www.esib.org/
 http://www.infed.org/biblio/globalization_an
d_education.htm
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