This document provides an overview of a unit on globalization and multicultural literacies. The unit aims to help students understand and appreciate globalization while preserving local culture. It discusses how technology has made the world more connected and interdependent, posing both opportunities and challenges for education. Students must learn to engage with the global market while maintaining their own cultural identities and traditions. The document defines globalization as the increasing integration and interconnectedness of countries and peoples through reduced barriers to trade, communication and travel. It notes globalization can both strengthen communities and cause some to lose touch with local culture.

1. Globalization and
Multicultural Literacies
Unit 1

2. “While globalization will make the world
smaller and more accessible, we must
continue to appreciate its vibrant
diversity.”

3. Learning Outcomes
At the end of this unit, the students should be able:
1. Express their insights on globalization and multicultural literacies
2. Cite the benefits and challenges of crossing international borders
while preserving and promoting their culture
3. Share the impact of globalization and multicultural literacies to
education
4. Demonstrate competencies actualizing the value of unity despite
diversity

4. In the era of technology and collaboration, the
world has become smaller
This massive avenue for communication
has posed tremendous opportunities and
diverse challenges to education
Students in this generation play a significant role in
this movement esp. when confronted with the
challenging roles of pursuing global competitiveness
while preserving local culture.

5. The challenge her is while you savor and
address the needs of the global market,
there is a corresponding responsibility for
you to continue to preserve and even
promote your culture

6. If this is continually exercised by the
people around, then you can truly claim
that despite globalization, you continue to
value LOCALIZATION

7. Lesson 1
GLOBALIZATION

8. GLOBALIZATION
• According to Coatsworth (2014), globalization happens when the
movement of people, goods or ideas among countries and region
accelerates.
• This reality apparently challenges the academe to keep track and
be able to address the needs of the world. Progress of a country
is no longer solely dependent within the development of a
specific country or region but it is how one is able to cultivate and
strengthen his/her potential for the benefit of the global
community.

9. The captivating scenes of the global
culture somehow lead people to lose sight
of seeing the beauty and love for the local
culture

10. The use of technology has become ubiquitous.
This reality consciously and unconsciously
breeds and seemingly becomes the common
source of agreement as well as disagreement,
creation as well as destruction, hard work as
well as indolence, unity as well as discordance;
love as well as indifference

11. GLOBALIZATION
• According to Joseph E. Stiglitz (2002), globalization is the closer
integration of the countries and people of the world brought
about by the enormous reduction of costs of transportation and
communication, and the breaking down of artificial barriers to
the flows of goods, services, capital, knowledge, and people
across borders.
• Held, et al. (1999) defined that globalization captured elements
of a widespread perception that there is a broadening,
deepening, and speeding up of world-wide interconnectedness in
all aspects of life, from the political, the financial to the
environmental.

12. FourTypes of Change
1. It involves a stretching of social, political and economic activities across
political frontiers, regions and continents.
2. It suggests the intensification, or growing magnitude, of
interconnectedness and flows of trade, investment, finance, migration,
culture, etc.
3. The growing extensity, intensity, and velocity of global
interconnectedness can be linked to a speeding up of global interactions
and processes
4. The growing extensity, intensity, and velocity of global interactions can
be associated with their deepening impact such that the effects of
distant events can be highly significant elsewhere and even the most
local developments may come to have enormous global consequences.