Globalization is impacting education in several ways. Technology is seen as equalizing educational opportunities worldwide by allowing access to information, but ensuring rural and impoverished students have resources remains a challenge. As the world becomes more interconnected through globalization, students must be prepared through their education to compete internationally and understand different cultures and languages. Educators face the task of incorporating new technologies, treating all students fairly, and adapting curricula to ensure student comprehension and participation in an increasingly globalized world.

1. Globalization and Education
By: LaToya Shuler

2. Globalization
The worldwide movement toward economic,
financial, trade, and communications
integration.

3. Education
The field of study that deals mainly with
methods of teaching and learning in schools

4. Connections
Globalization and Education

5. #1 Trend
Technology
Technology is seen as the equalizer for
educational opportunity around the world.

6. Technology and Students
Technology is continuously changing and
educators must do their best to keep up with
those changes. Incorporating new
technologies into the classroom is a must for
students to keep up with changing times.

7. #2 Issue
Equality
There is a concern that people in rural areas
and impoverished people are not getting the
resources, to develop educational. A country
must invest in human capital to be
compatible in the 21st century.

8. Equality and Students
Confronting Social Dominance and Social
Justice – Ensuring that all students are
treated fair should be of importance to every
educator.

9. #3 Issue
International Competition
U.S. students are compared with those in
other developed countries, such as Singapore
and Korea, and the rapid economic growth of
China and India, which have often been
blamed for job losses and the surging U.S.
trade deficit (Zhao, 2007)

10. International Competition and
Students
The curriculum should be changed to allow
teachers the flexibility to teach students and
ensure comprehension is taking place. The
concept of teaching to a test must be done
away with.

11. #4 Challenge
Politics
According to Joseph Stiglitz (2006, 25), is that
“economic globalization has outpaced the
globalization of politics and mindsets.” He
also believes that our leaders are applying a
Cold War mindset to a globalized world.

12. Politics and Students
Leaders need to think of human capital in the
context of globalization.

13. # 5 Issue
Multicultural
• Understanding other ethnicities and
languages is imperative to the continued
affluence of the United States
• as a multicultural society

14. Multicultural and Students
• Foreign Languages are not part of the core
curriculum in our schools. In order for our
students to be able to participate and
succeed in a global work environment we as
a school system must develop their
knowledge in other world regions and
cultures.

15. Reference
Stiglit, J. (2006) Making Globalization Work.
Retrieved 28 April 2013
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eviews/reviews/books/making-globalization-
work-by-joseph-stiglitz-$449616.htm
Zhao Y. (2007) Education in the flat World:
Implication of Globalization on Education