Education in a Globalising World

 
Globalisation
 How has your world changed over the past three decades?
 What has been most significant for you?
 What has been most significant for your profession?
 
The Elements
 Expanding actions concerning the whole world in all aspects
 Convergence at space and time
 Deprivation of territorial aspect of various processes and phenomena
 Homogenisation, uniformisation of the world
 New international order that replaced cold-war order
 A situation where a producer may produce anywhere in the world, sell whenever he wants,
use resources of any country and have his headquarters anywhere in the world
 
A changing world implicates all nations on the planet. Very different effects and manifestations in
different locations.
 
Education
 As an institution it holds great promises - the end of poverty and inequality, violence, an
enlightened populace, social mobility - a means to achieve success and aspiration.
 For teachers, in schools and universities it is a means of passing on our own experiences of
self cultivation, of personal growth and various ideals of social justice.
 For us a researchers it is an enriching field that presents us with opportunity to make a
difference
 
Education and Development
The faith in education is scaffolded by the belief that it can reduce human suffering, social injustice
and improve national efficiency, that equality can be achieved irrespective of social location, gender,
ethnicity.
 
Globalisation and Education
 Development -- neo-liberalisation
o Deregulation, decentralisation, privatisation, commodification, credentialism, neo-
colonisation
 Technological and cultural revolution
o Increased multi-media lifestyles, i.e. computers, television, mobile phones etc
o Increase people movement across the globe
 New transformative pedagogies (teaching philosophies and practices)
o Critical media
o Multicultural syllabus
o Multi-literacy
 
Key Issues
 Prosperity and poverty
 Opportunity
 Critical awareness -- a global awareness
 
Globalisation Scapes
five dimensions:
  Ethnoscapes (tourists, immigrants, refugees)
 Mediascapes (line between real and fictional landscapes blurred)
 Technoscapes (configurations of technology)
 Finanscapes
 Ideoscapes (ideas of freedom, welfare, rights spreading through the world)
 
Three dynamics
 Westernisation
 Polarisation
 Hybridisation