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Development of Education System Kulwinder Pal, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 28: Globalization of Education

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
28.1 Globalization of Education
28.2 Impact of Globalization in Higher Education
28.3 Summary
28.4 Keywords
28.5 Review Questions
28.6 Further Readings

Objectives
The objectives of this unit can be Summarized as below:
• to discuss about the role of education
• to discuss about the imapect of globalization in higher education

Introduction

Education is undergoing constant changes under the effects of globalization. The effects of
globalization on education bring rapid developments in technology and communications are
foreseeing changes within learning systems across the world as ideas, values and knowledge,
changing the roles of students and teachers, and producing a shift in society from industrialisation
towards an information-based society. It reflects the effect on culture and brings about a new
form of cultural imperialism. The rise of new cultural imperialism is 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. Globalization and
technological advancements are delivering and increasing access to the world and subsequently
subjects should reflect this global outlook.
The internationalisation of higher education can be linked to various internal and external
changes in the international system. Externally, there have been changes in the labour market,
which have resulted in calls for more knowledge and skilled workers, and workers with deeper
understandings of languages, cultures and business methods all over the world. Education is
becoming more invaluable to individuals. In today's environment, education provides
individuals with a better chance of employment, which in turn leads to a better lifestyle, power
and status. The commodification of knowledge as intellectual property has occurred particularly
with regard to connecting the intellectual work of universities with community, business, and
government interests and priorities. While such a tendency is often welcomed by so-called
applied disciplines, it causes tensions between the more profitable applied subjects of science
and technology, and those of basic theoretical enquiry, particularly in arts and humanities. It
also creates institutional winners and losers.

28.1 Globalization of Education
Globalization is a process, which has affected many areas of human life, one of those being
education. In the twentieth century, many developing countries have experienced growth in the
educational facilities available to them due to the entry of institutions from the West. Some
believe that this process is an invaluable opportunity for the people of the developing countries

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