From Open to Inclusive: asserting rights based approaches in globalized learning
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Globalization is increasing inequality and access disparities on a planetary scale according to the document. While technology increases connectivity, it also exacerbates exclusions and imbalances of power. The author argues that education systems must address these issues of inequality, inclusion, and social justice in a globalized world undergoing crisis and restructuring. Strategic policy questions around defining goals to meet real needs, unmasking inequity, and ensuring inclusive and equitable access are raised.
From Open to Inclusive: asserting rights based approaches in globalized learning
- 1. From Open to Inclusive: asserting rights based approaches in globalized learning Dr. Alan Bruce ULS Dublin LINQ 2015 Brussels, Belgium 12 May 2015
- 2. Globalization Trends: economic, social, commercial, cultural Communications on unprecedented scale Planetary scale is at least potentially possible Glitz disguises realities of continuing disequilibrium Comparative possibilities Alternatives are possible: Assimilation is expected
- 3. Global benefit? Levels of imbalance are actually increasing Major disparities in power and access to resources Severe disruptions in terms of acceptance and stability Crisis in terms of resources and access Hunger and rage – the migrant flood Urbanized nightmares of hopelessness Equality: myth or possibility?
- 4. Shaping enterprise dimensions • Decreasing employee share in national income in all countries • Labor productivity - up 85% since 1980 • Not reflected in wages - up 35% • Declining social mobility • Rising income inequality reflects declining equality of opportunity Global Wage Report 2012/13, ILO Prof. Miles Corak, Journal of Economic Perspectives 2013 We are increasingly becoming a winner takes all economy… over recent decades, technological change, globalization and erosion of the institutions and practices that support shared prosperity have put the middle class under increasing stress Dr. Alan Kruege Council of Economic Advisers & Princeton (2013)
- 5. Reality on our doorstep
- 6. Change and globalization • Globalization – accelerating and pervasive • Crisis and re-structuring since 2008 • Devaluation of the public sphere • Stratification and inequity – focusing on social justice • Labor market transformation • Mobile capital and global investment linkage • Rights and inclusion – token or real? • Who owns what? And why?
- 7. Strategic policy questions • Mythology of the ‘normal’ or standard • Defining policy goals and aims to meet real needs • Robust probing of social structure • Unmasking power, relationships and inequity • Learners already immersed in and emerging into this changed constellation – of which gatekeepers often know little
- 8. ICT and re-imagined access Contradictory and paradoxical process Never greater potential - side by side with increasing disparities of access What we think: Citizens Shared knowledge Participative engagement What we have: Consumers Increasing exclusion Significant problems with equitable access
- 9. Cohen and Kennedy (2000): 6 issues around globalization that impact directly on education: Changing concepts of space and time An increasing number of cultural interactions Common problems facing the world’s inhabitants Growing interconnections and interdependence Networks of increasingly powerful transnational actors and organization Synchronization of all dimensions involved in globalization.
- 10. Fragments of a globalized future… Planetary urbanization New diversities Equality, access and inclusive design Understanding crisis – living with crisis Globalization: obliteration of borders… but creation of connectivity New markets Constant upskilling
- 11. Crisis and imbalance Education as both structure and process Education systems mirror world and society of which they are part Education systems as constraining as liberating Forum for ideas or market for products? Or both….? Commodification of knowledge Impact on education systems (Freire, Illich, Field) Impact on work (Braverman, Haraszti, Davis) Impact on community
- 12. Purposive learning in an age of uncertainty End of linear models of learning Cognitive dissonance: what is needed is not being provided Alienation and anomie in a changing world Labor market flux and the loss of autonomy Adaptability and innovation as norm, not exception Globalized paradigms and fractured community Elephants in the room: power and ownership
- 13. Further issues Quantum increase in data: Information as a marketable resource Massification at all levels Ownership and control The Surveillance State Participation and openness Using a system or being used? Active use…to active participation At what point is meaning and value added?
- 14. Accelerating inequality 12 m.: numbers with more than $1m. to invest (9,2% increase since 2011) $46,2 trillion: aggregate wealth of this group (10% increase since 2011) Ultrarich (>$30m.) surged 11% (now 35,2% of all millionaires) WorldWealth Report: RBCWealth Management & Capgemini Financial Services (June 2013) Declining social mobility Rising income inequality reflected in declining equality of opportunity GlobalWage Report 2012/13, ILO (Prof. Miles Corak, Journal of Economic Perspectives 2013)
- 15. Inclusion - five key issues in Europe 1. Measures to reduce early school leaving 2. Priority education measures in relation to disadvantaged pupils and groups 3. Inclusive education measures in relation to pupils with special needs 4. Safe education measures in relation on the reduction of bullying and harassment 5. Teacher support measures.
- 16. Trajectories of inclusion Youth and mass unemployment Demographics: ageing and life expectancy Women and labor market participation Immigration, cultural and religious difference Disability Conflict, stress, anomie Urbanization, dissent and democratic deficits
- 17. Meaningful inclusion Inclusion changes both sides – the act of mainstreaming is to change the mainstream not the ‘excluded’ From objects to subjects Narratives of adaptation and discovery From target group to citizen Critical role of teachers Inclusion and the dialectic of rights
- 18. Excluding systems Legacies of segregated schooling Gender Disability Religion Ability Language Class Unequal school systems mirror unequal society Schooling is not separate from wider socio-political environment
- 19. Key points Schooling and education at a crossroads: both structure and process Labor market and education increasingly connected Planetary focus is on mobility, skills and innovation Huge impact of increasing inequality of access and of resources Crisis as the norm Addressing assessment Performance, standards, quality, reproducibility and added value at the heart of competence ICT embedded in contexts of vision and values
- 20. Thank you Dr. Alan Bruce ULS Dublin abruce@ulsystems.com Associate Offices: BARCELONA - HELSINKI - SÃO PAULO - CHICAGO