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Globalization and Global education

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In politics

Globalization thretens the legitimacy and influence of the nation-state as it yields to international agreements, international institutions and new forms of sovereinity.

In economics

Expanded global trade causing structural changes in production and distribution based on comparative competitiveness of economies.

In sociological perspective

Globalization has established a veritable global civil society

In cultural perspective

Establishment of global communication industries has threatened and to some extent weakened, national values and traditions through the emergence of multi ethnic and multicultural soieties towards a global culture

•Individual choice versus societal choice

•The free market versus government intervention

•Local authority versus supra-local authority

The essence of global education is not about

who is running the classroom so much as

what students are learning within it.

To create a holistic, inter-disciplinary approach

giving students both skills and the ability to

adapt those skills

Public Education, Curriculum and Pedagogy

Global Education and Global Citizenship

• Linking of educators and students through technology that fosters a sense of global community.

• Global citizenshipis key precept of the goal of global education.

•Notions of knowledge, caring, and empathy toward one’s local, national, and global community are overarching themes of global citizenship.

• Schools K-12 and institutions of higher education work to provide students with increasingly multi-cultural and cosmopolitan perspective

• Curricula going Global K 12

Schools must teach skills transferable from one job to

another.

Facilitate a contextual understanding of global education’s interdisciplinarity.