Globalization of Education

Which are the major theoretical frameworks for interpreting the field of globalization of education?

• World culture

• World systems

• Postcolonial analysis

• Lifelong learning & Human capital

• Culturalist

Select intergovernmental organizations contributing to the globalization of education

• World Bank

• The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

• the World Trade Organization (WTO)

• UNESCO

• Human Rights Watch

Select nongovernmental organizations contributing to the globalization of education

• Amnesty International

• Greenpeace

• the United Nations

• Human Rights Watch

• The Human Rights Education Association

Does globalization mean that all schools are the same?

• Not yet, but we are moving in that direction

• Yes, models of schooling have been already defined

• It is true because formal education is a common international experience

• No, There are differences between the local actions and the global models and policies

Why are nations of the world more alike?

• Because similar political forms, similar economic organizations, or similar religions

• Similar education agendas and investing in education are making all the nations of the world more alike.

• Trade and technology are making all the nations of the world more alike.

• Mass school systems and similar curricula

What are societies?

• The nation-state

• Something broader than a nation-state by including economic and political organizations, civil society, and culture.

• Groups of peoples sharing similar characteristics who see themselves as connected across the boundaries of nation-states

• A community or group of people having common traditions, institutions, and interests

What happens to nation-states in globalization?

• The nation-state disappears becoming in the world culture

• The nation-state becomes the most important society

• The nation-state does not disappear but becomes a subset of societies

• The nation-state loses social cohesion

Which are the major educational discourses?

• Neoliberalism

• The knowledge economy and technology

• lifelong learning

• World culture

• Global migration or brain circulation

Which are global flows?

• ethnoscapes

• financescapes

• mediascapes

• ideoscapes

• technoscapes

What are ethnoscapes?

• the movement of images and ideas in popular culture

• the movement of technology

• the movement of trade, money, and capital

• the movement of the world’s peoples

• the movement of ideas and practices concerning government and other institutional policies