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Lecture Notes 22/11/13
Globalisation and Education
1) A shrinking and globally interconnected world
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2) Globalisation of capitalism: transnational corporations shrinking the world by
eliminating national boundaries
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4) Globalisation economically and politically motivated: United Nations 'conscious of the
world'
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6) Drivers: space and time compressed due to technology, transport, and ideological
factors
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Global Social Policy
1) Policy decided by the meeting of government and influence of financial/corporate
institutions
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3) homogenised educational policies: ideas of education globalised through colonialism
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5) Western education system: globalisation of schooling has seen the domination of
western ideas across the world
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Education for All - World Bank Education
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World Bank is the main funder for the developing world
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Human capital: people as resources
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Knowledge economy: education a lifelong process
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Imposing western values of education and knowledge through globalisation
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Criticism
Economically driven: education preparing students for work and not for life
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Individual and fixed notion of competence
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5) Education as a form of educational imperialism
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2) Challenge the globalisation of schooling
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We should love to learn: education should serve a social purpose
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Pedagogy of the oppressed: change education away from human capital notion
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Interdisciplinary learning: raise questions about knowledge and power
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New Labour
1) promoting a global perspective into education policy (2004)
2) Global citizenship

The Coalition
1) Doesn't like the global perspective on education
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3) Coalition a modernisation of Thatcherite traditional education

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