Globalization and Education

When it comes to globalization, everyone may have a different vision of it’s outcome. For Marcelo Gleiser, the author of “Globalization: Two visions of the Future of Humanity”, a completely globalized world may result in a dystopia. In contrast, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, the author of “A Mickey Mouse Approach to Globalization” and Tanveer Ali, the creator of “The Subway Falafel Sandwich and the Americanization of Ethnic Food” may think of globalization as other cultures sharing each other’s components to interact on a new level and spurring a more “open-minded” (Ali 27) individual.

Individuals of the same ethnic background share the same culture a factor that explains that there, as many cultures as there are ethnic backgrounds across the world. Globalization has, however, led to interaction of people from varied cultural backgrounds. Because of the interaction, globalization has been accused of limiting cultural diversity. It is, however, not the case in reality. The purpose of this paper is to analyze some of the factors that justify that globalization has not limited cultural diversity as its critics say. Thus, globalization should not be viewed as a hindrance to cultural diversity because the best subject of moral concern should be the individual person and not the nation, community or the society.

Some argue that globalization will, on the long term, bring all cultures as a unique Western, if not Americanized, culture, while others argue that some cultures will persist in order to keep their own essence and therefore avoid the homogenization of all cultures. Alongside pure tradition, global conflicts, contradictory political regimes and the diversity of economic systems, some cultures are bound to face issues when trying to fully fit in a global western culture, and that is why cultures are adaptable to one another, but with some limits that we will express in this essay.

According to them, those who do new settlements in another culture face the challenges of “Social strangeness” in the host culture. Acculturation has been mainly evolved by sociologists. Afterward Berry in 1977 paid a great consideration to the psychological aspects of acculturation. Berry (1995) has valued acculturation as a strategy of social and cultural adaptation and the lessening of conflict. Contact and settlement in a new culture as important factors of acculturation are also the main issues of diaspora as a field of

Globalization has already affected our economic, social, and cultural life significantly. The impact of globalization is only going to deepen and the consequences will be more broadly felt. For our children to live successfully and peacefully in this globalized world, we need to help them develop the appropriate skills, knowledge, attitudes, and perspectives (p. 429).

Globalization is an issue that has impacted the world for centuries. In a globalized world, nations and its peoples are connected in a multitude of ways, including by political relations, social impacts and cultural diffusion, and economic trade between countries. Those global connections produce both benefits and conflict that can affect the course of history. Throughout history, it has become evident there can be great advantages to social and economic globalization, but that the disadvantages of political globalization can be costly.

Cultural individuality and distinctiveness is the pride of every nation. All communities rejoice in the richness and exoticness of their own cultural symbols, be it dressing, architecture, language or way-of-life. With the dawn of globalization, however, cultural variety and distinguishing characteristics are vanishing; giving rise to a monoculture common to all. While this may be a harbinger of unity and relatedness among all people of the world, it also damages the unique cultural identities they once took pride in. This paper discusses the effects of globalization on culture, along with its positive and negative effects. Since the effects of globalization on culture are non-exhaustive, it is attempted to incorporate a few of the most

The acceleration of globalization has raised issues culture conformity and diversity throughout the world. These topics are argued drastically throughout the world. Apparently, issues relate to cultures will not simply defined by right or wrong because each coins have two sides and every culture have their own advantages and drawbacks. True, many people may claim that globalization has made this world smaller and the distinctions between nations or cultures are disappearing. But personally, I hold positive opinions about the cultural developments nowadays.

Despite the centrality of culture in defining who we are, its definition continues to allude many. While some may see culture as the material relics of a certain group, such as food, dress art or language, others view it as the intangible beliefs and norms which govern our behaviour. Indeed, culture is a multifaceted and subjective construct that becomes internalized and therefore is a driving force in the formation of our unique identities. Cultural identity thus becomes an expression of our governing systems of kinship, ethnicity, race and religion, interacting with the social, economic and political world around us (Hall, 1995). In this way, cultural identity represents the extent we feel connected to and a part of a given cultural group. While identity formation is a fluid construct which is subject to evolution and influence, one could argue that people born to the dominant in-group experience a relatively smooth and unvaried transition into their sense of self. Conversely, first or second generation immigrants who have stake in two different worlds may find themselves hindered by conflicting values, practices and identities. Indeed, globalization has opened up the door for culture to flow between time and space and thus it becomes transferable (Hall, 1995). This transference has large implications for both racism and nationalism as overt differences between peoples can become a point of tension. As such, culture becomes a powerful concept with the ability to either

On September 5, 2015, an interview was conducted with Dr. David Finely. Dr. Finely is the International Education Director of all academic courses and academic staff in the 15 different international programs in local public schools for AMESON Education and Culture Exchange Foundation based in Nanjing, China. The purpose of the interview was to discuss Dr. Finely 's professional views on educational globalization and the changes taking place in classrooms around the world.

Topic: What impacts has Globalisation had on higher education (HE)? A comparative study of Australia and United Kingdom.

One of the most pressing issues that I have found that is creeping up on most countries is the globalization of education. The different influences in the world are causing education systems to become more and more similar. Different groups have had differing reactions to these changes as some societies view it as a positive change and some view it as a negative change. One particular thing that a lot of countries are beginning to enforce is a national curriculum for their country. With the increasing popularity of a national curriculum also comes the increasingly prominent focus on worldwide issues. This is also causing national curriculums to become more and more alike and it appears a globalized curriculum is forming. One country in particular, Australia, has begun to slowly, but surely, incorporate the ideals of standardized testing and national curriculum into their classrooms starting in 2012. In this case study, I am not here to give you my opinion, but rather to give you the differing opinions on the implementation of these standardized tests and the idea of a national curriculum.

We belong to a world where cultural contact between two different people from different cultural backgrounds shapes one as a person. Acculturation refers to the process of cultural as well as psychological change that results because of cultural contact (Berry, 2008). Due to the increasing developments in transportation, technology as well as communication, cultural contact between people from different backgrounds has increased and become easier. There are two types of Acculturation the first one is group-level acculturation and the second one is individual-level acculturation. On the Group-level, the process of acculturation takes place as a massive intake of another culture’s traits, incorporating them as a part of one’s culture. Where as on the individual-level, this happens on a smaller scale

The issues of globalization increasingly dominate the universe’s life. The concept of globalization according to Robertson (1992) refers to the narrowing of the world as incentives and increased our awareness of the world, namely the increasing global connections and our understanding of the connection. Globalization is a situation in which no boundaries between the people of the world and links communities in a country with people in another countries. Globalization departs from an idea to unite the nations which is expected to be a mutual agreement and guidelines for nations around the world. Globalization is able to waive the space and time constraints to get the interaction and communication between nations can be done

Globalization simply defined is the intensification of global interactions. The case studies we have studied depict two of the main types of globalization. Economic Globalization, which is the production, exchange, distribution, and consumption of goods and tangible services, and Cultural Globalization, the exchange of materials and symbols that represent facts, meaning values and beliefs. When Globalization occurs it usually has a major impact on indigenous cultures. Optimists or “champions” state that the relationship between culture and globalization has positive effects as it creates a balance between nations. Conversely, critics state that relationships between the two have negative effects, leading to the loss or deterioration of a