Globalisation and Education

• Globalisation

  The increased interconnectedness between people and nation-states. This includes Technological, Economic, and Cultural interconnectedness.
• Migration

  The movement of people from one place to another (either within a country or between countries).
• PISA tests


  The Programme for International Student Assessment is a worldwide study t in member and non-member nations intended to evaluate educational systems by measuring 15-year-old school pupils' performance in mathematics, science, and reading.
• PREVENT policy


  Prevent is about safeguarding and supporting those vulnerable to radicalisation.

  Prevent is 1 of the 4 elements of CONTEST, the Government's counter-terrorism strategy. It aims to stop people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.
• Features of Globalisation (Technological Development)

  New Technologies make it easier to connect over long distances (time-space compression)
• Features of Globalisation (Economic Changes)

  Economic activity now occurs globally in a 24-hour system—the growth of transnational companies and an electronic economy.
• Features of Globalisation (Political Changes)

  Globalisation has undermined the power of the nation-state:

  We now live in a borderless world where in some cases TNCs have more power than governments.
• Features of Globalisation (Cultural Changes)


  We now live in a global culture of mass media and the internet which has led to the Westernisation of the world.
• Features of Globalisation (Migration)


  People are moving more freely within and between countries for economic and personal reasons.
• Impacts of Globalisation on Education:

  - Increased competition for jobs: means schools have to change the curriculum to meet new needs (e.g. computer science)

  
  

  - Increased competition between schools and universities for students.

  
  

  - Global ICT Companies such as Apple and Google now create online resources/curriculums.

  
  

  - Global Rankings are used to compare and contrast systems: raise standards

  
  

  - Increased multiculturalism in schools and decline of the ethnocentric curriculum (focuses on the dominant culture)

  
  

  - Increased risk and safeguarding issues for schools (e.g. cyber bullying, PREVENT and anti- radicalisation)
• Perspectives Views on Globalisation and Education (Hyper Globalist View)

  Ohmae:

  - creation of global citizens

  - greater tolerance and respect for differences

  - greater access to information creating higher educational achievement
• Perspectives Views on Globalisation and Education (Marxist Views)


  Globalisation only provides more education opportunities to the wealthy.

  
  

  Joel Spring:

  - Global Corporations are setting the educational agenda

  - Creating a digital divide

  - Disempowering of teachers
• Perspectives Views on Globalisation and Education (NeoLiberal View)

  Globalisation allows for private schools and universities to expand around the world.

  
  

  Globalisation means that governments can play a reduced role in education system and reduce funding.
• Perspectives Views on Globalisation and Education (New Fordist View)

  Globalisation has increased competition in the job market which means that governments should increase education spending.

  
  

  Needs to be more focused on skills/competence to be able to compete globally.