Globalization and Global education
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In politics
In sociological
perspective
In economics
In cultural perspective
In politics
Globalization thretens the legitimacy and influence of the nation-state as it yields to international agreements, international institutions and new forms of sovereinity.
In economics
Expanded global trade causing structural changes in production and distribution based on comparative competitiveness of economies.
In cultural perspective
Establishment of global communication industries has threatened and to some extent weakened, national values and traditions through the emergence of multi ethnic and multicultural soieties towards a global culture
•Individual choice versus societal choice
•The free market versus government intervention
•Local authority versus supra-local authority
The essence of global education is not about
who is running the classroom so much as
what students are learning within it.
To create a holistic, inter-disciplinary approach
giving students both skills and the ability to
adapt those skills
Public Education, Curriculum and Pedagogy
Global Education and Global Citizenship
• Linking of educators and students through technology that fosters a sense of global community.
• Global citizenshipis key precept of the goal of global education.
•Notions of knowledge, caring, and empathy toward one’s local, national, and global community are overarching themes of global citizenship.
• Schools K-12 and institutions of higher education work to provide students with increasingly multi-cultural and cosmopolitan perspective
• Curricula going Global K 12
Schools must teach skills transferable from one job to
another.
Facilitate a contextual understanding of global education’s interdisciplinarity.