Globalization has led to significant changes in education through increased capitalism, technology, and cultural blending. Capitalism and the free market have commoditized education and increased competition and specialization. Information technology has made education more effective by using multimedia and allowing online/distance learning, but has also increased demands for new technical skills. Globalization is homogenizing languages and demanding multilingual skills, while also leading to a cultural "curry" or blend. Education must recognize and accommodate this cultural diversity to promote social cohesion and peace in an interconnected world.

1. GLOBALIZATION AND EDUCATION
“Pickle Pot of
Points to Ponder
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2. Menu
• What is globalization?
• Globalization and Education nexus:
• Changes and Challenges.
• Based on popular phrases and not
on empirical research, facts and
figures.

3. What is globalisation?
 Early phase: Colonialism supported by gun
powder and navigation.
– … Empire where sun never sets.
 Modern phase: A socio-political, economic
and technological evolution towards a
closely integrated global society:
– Global Village.
 Political: Dictatorship to Democracy
 Economic: Socialism to Capitalism
 Technological: Stone, Iron, Wheel, Coal-
Petroleum to Information

4. Determinants of
Globalization: Capitalism
 End of “cold war” lead to capitalism beyond
national borders.
 Capitalist/ Market Economic System
– Individualism
– Commoditization
– Financial profit
– Free trade (commodities as well as resources)
 Brain drain to muscle drain
– Darwinian law of evolution: Survival of the fittest.
 Has capitalism failed with the global fiancial
crisis?
– Will nationalism take over globalism?

5. Determinants of
Globalization: Information
Technology
 Easy and speedy access to
information
– Made possible through satellite and
computer technology (WWW).
 A complement to capitalist
economic system.
 The snake mate of capitalism and IT
lead to birth of globalization.

6. Globalization phrased
 Global village.
 World without nations.
 Nation as a lines on a map.
 Shrinking space, time with disappearing
national borders linking people. (3% of
people live outside of own nation)
 Dreams from my father … Barack Obama
– A world, where one would not know where he
would be buried.

7. Globalization:
Capitalism and Education
 Education breaching national
boundaries (Trade in Education).
– Brain drain.
– International market for education.
 Extending Education to Expatriates.
 30% of students in Australia are foreign
students.
 Education in Australia cost OR 35,000 per
course.

8. Globalization:
Capitalism and Education
 Competition: Survival of the fittest.
– Competition is global.
 Learn to be modest winners and gracious loosers
in a human environment (not screen environment).
 Loosing jobs: An average American
changes 6 jobs during life time.
– Flexible knowledge
– Life long education
– Learn to learn in school

9. Globalization:
Capitalism and Education
 Commoditization of education
– Education supplied by the private sector for
profits as a private good and not by the public
sector as a public good.
 Education for jobs (factor of production).
– Increased specialization.
 Therefore application needs leadership and
teams.
– Knowledge looses its value as a source of pleasure.
 Education for profit may marginalize the
poor.
– Education is the 2nd
largest industry in USA
worth 10% of GDP.

10. Globalization:
IT and Education
 IT has made formal education more
“effective”.
– Multimedia presentation technology substituting
chalk and board.
 IT has breached norms of formal
education (place and time).
– On line/ distance learning
 Learning at home at any time
 Requires IT skills to provide education and
access education.

11. Globalization:
Culture and Education
 Language is a part of culture (6000
languages).
 Globalization is homogenising
language or demanding multi-
linguistic capabilities.
– English the global language?
– Symbolism the global language (1 or 0
the digital language to SMS language.

12. Globalization:
Culture and Education
 Globalization leads to a cultural curry (cultural
blend/ melting pot).
– President Obama is a black-American, farther Muslim
Kenyan, mother Christian American, a sister
Indonesian, others Kenyan, … A story of race and
inheritance in a global village.
 Education needs to recognize such
– in the educational process and
– in the educational output.
 Students needs to empathise
– with students of other cultures in the learning
environment and
– finally in the work place and society.

13. Globalization:
Education and SLSM
 In a globalized world, we must
provide education within and
towards, respect of diversity of
cultures, with concerns to social
cohesion and peace.
 SLSM has a treasure trove of
opportunities to provide education
to meet challenges of a globalized
world.