GLOBALIZATION AND EDUCATION

 Globalization has a close relation with education. As education has an important place in shaping
a society, globalization has to be connected with education and the global activities have a deep
impact on it.
 Globalization of the world economies is leading to increase emphasis on internationalization of
the subjects included in a course of study in school.
 It creates the opportunities for new partnerships in research and teaching with agencies and
institutions across the world.
 Globalization is one of most powerful worldwide forces that are transforming the basis of
business competition, paradoxically harkening an era in which small, local communities of
practice may lead to a prominent structural form.
 Communities of practice impeach organizations to build, share and apply deeply of competence
required to compete in a knowledge-based global economy.

 In every area, humanity lives an increase and rapid change. New challenges force social,
economic and cultural values.
 In the field of education a lot of changes are expected duties of schools is to ameliorate the
individual’s appropriateness with the concept of globalization that changes traditional structure of
education, which is one of the main rapid changes today in universities and other institutions that
are redoubling their efforts to respond to social change.
 The global education system has many goals in common for every country. The aims and
importance of global education can be sated as follows:

o Let those who participates in educational process obtains skills of new cultures.
o Develop the ability of distinguishing intercultural differences.
o Aiding the people for criticizing events from global perspective.
o Explain how different cultures impact the activities of organizations.
o Help students realize how attitudes are shaped and how they influence the behaviours.
o The language and harmony skills of the managers who will work in different cultures
should be developed.
o Provide the ability of working together with the people coming from different cultures.
o Develop the skill of multi-sided thinking by causing them gain the cultural sensitivity and
experience.
o Teach how to behave according to cultural differences.
o Teach how to manage multinational groups .
o Develop the way of thinking from individuality to globalized .

 Under the effects of globalization, education is driven to important changes. The effects of
Globalization on education bring faster developments in technology and communications are
foreseeing changes within school systems across the world as ideas, values and knowledge,
changing the roles of students and teachers, and producing a shift in society from industrialization
towards an information-based society.
 It gives quick developments in technology and communications are foreseeing changes the rise of
a global society, driven by technology and communication developments are shaping children,
the future citizens of the world into „global citizens‟, intelligent people with a broad range of
skills and knowledge to apply to a competitive, information based society.
 The nature of delivering education to students is being changed by the introduction of technology
into the classroom, is gradually giving way to a new form of electronic literacy , more programs
and education materials are made available in electronic form, teachers are preparing materials in
electronic form; and students are generating papers, assignments and projects in electronic form‟.
 Video projection screens, books with storage device servers and CD ROMs as well as the rise of
on-line digital libraries are now replacing blackboards.
 Even exams and grades are gradually becoming available by electronic means and notebooks are
starting to give way to laptops. Also, Students can be examined through computer managed
learning systems and do tutorial exercises on a computer rather than in classroom.
 Such developments in education portray that there has been a shift from industrialization to
information-based societies. Hence, technology is predicting in the education environment
towards a reliance on electronic sources to deliver material.
 With such changes and the emergence of video conferencing and the Internet, the barriers of
distance are being broken down at a fast rate, due to the key aspect of globalization.
 Children and adults can now learn in a variety of ways and no longer have to be physically
presented in an education institution in order to learn, a definite advantage of flexible delivery
systems.
 It allows for exploration of new areas of learning and thinking. The rapid growth of television
services, with their immense influence as media of mass communication, has very relevant in the
technological shift.
 Computers maintain libraries of text, images, computer software, and other forms of information
that anyone can access it, anywhere, at any time. This implementation of technology and
communication to be successful and to educate a society, both the students and teachers need to
be technologically literate.