GLOBALIZATION and EDUCATION
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The document discusses the multifaceted impacts of globalization on education, emphasizing the need for educational systems to adapt to changing job markets and international labor pools. It highlights necessary reforms such as curriculum upgrades, productivity orientation, and the internationalization of education, driven by economic realities and global demands. The role of educational institutions is deemed crucial in addressing global challenges, necessitating a reevaluation and restructuring of educational approaches to prepare future generations.
GLOBALIZATION and EDUCATION
- 1. Economic Level on Globalization Political issues on Globalization Conflict and consensus perspective on the role of education Globalization and Its Impact on Education
- 2. It is affecting employment it touches upon one of the primary traditional goals of education, preparation for work. Schools will need to reconsider the mission in the light of changing job markets in the Post- Fordist work environment; new skills and the flexibility to adapt to changing jobs demands for that matter, changing jobs over a lifetime; and dealing with an increasingly international labor pool.
- 3. The broader economic effects of globalization tend to force national educational policies into a neo- liberal framework that emphasizes lower taxes, shrinking the state sector and “doing more with less. Promoting market approaches to school choice; rational management of school organization; performance assessment and deregulation in order to encourage new provider (including online providers) of educational services.
- 4. Globalization will continue to be a vector of worldwide. We need a major research agenda to examine how educational most broadly defined can best prepare children to engage in a global world.
- 5. There has been the constraint on national/ state policy making posed by external demands from transnational institutions. There has also been a growing internationalization of Global conflict, crime, terrorism and environment issue. Educational Institutions may have crucial role to play in addressing these problems and the complex network of intended and unintended human consequences that have followed from the growth of global corporation, global mobility, global communication and global expansion.
- 6. Educational System worldwide continue to mimicking and often mechanically copying from each other and borrowing curricula, teaching methods and assessment tests,. The Forces of Globalization are: a. Taxing Youth b. Families c. Educational System All social systems are predicated on the need to impart values, morals skills and competencies to the next generations.
- 7. The lives and experiences of Youth growing up today will be linked: a. Economic Realities b. Social Processes c. Technological d. Media Innovations e. Cultural Flows Education will need both rethinking and restructuring if schooling is to best prepare the children and youth of the world to engage globalization’s new challenges, opportunities and costs.
- 8. Globalization has a wide ranging potential to influence all sector of development. The Impact of Globalization and the manner in which the system should respond to the needs of globalization would require to be studied basically under two broad heads as follows: 1. The needed reforms within the educational systems 2. The fall out of globalization
- 9. 1.Content of Education 2.The Fall Out of Globalization What are these need reforms of education?
- 10. a.Curriculum Up-gradation - The modern advances in information technology have revolutionized among others, the content of knowledge and the processes of educational transaction. b. Productivity Orientation - The basic objective of globalization is to enhance productivity and to make the educational system an instrument in preparing students who can competence in the world markets as productive members of society.
- 11. a. Internationalization of Education - Implicit in the system of globalization is the inevitability of the internationalization of the educational systems, particularly at the higher education stage. This has become a worldwide phenomena because of the entry of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the inclusion of educational services under the General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS) which has given a boost to the internalization of higher education.
- 12. b. Finance- related issues - In order to be a part of global configuration, the requirement of funds for social services including education will increase manifold. c. Privatization of secondary and higher education - As a corollary to the suggestion about reducing public investment in secondary and higher education, a plea has been made over these sectors to private bodies.