Report in Social Dimensions of Education

Submitted by:
Vanessa E. Petrola
BEED SPED-IV

Submitted to:
Maam Judith Camacho



Socio-Cultural, Economic, and Political Issues on Globalization

Globalization
-The worldwide movement toward economic, financial, trade,
and communications integration. Globalization implies the opening of local and
nationalistic perspectives to a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent
world with free transfer of capital, goods, and services across national frontiers.
However, it does not include unhindered movement of labor and, as suggested by
some economists, may hurt smaller or fragile economies if applied indiscriminately.
-Is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world
views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture.
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Advances
in transportation and telecommunications infrastructure, including the rise of
the telegraph and its posterity the Internet, are major factors in globalization, generating
further interdependence of economic and cultural activities.
Socio- Cultural Issues

- One of the paradoxes of globalization is that difference is becoming increasingly
normative. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, that line is complicated by the
increasingly fluid political and cultural borders that once separated both nation states and
the people within them.
- Managing difference is becoming one of the greatest challenges to multicultural
countries. Children growing up in these and other settings are likely than in any previous
generation in human history to face a life of working and networking, loving and living
with others from different national, linguistic, religious and racial backgrounds. They are
challenged to engage and work through competing and contrasting models, such as
kinship, gender, language (monolingual and multilingual), and the complicated
relationships between race, ethnicity and inequality in new ways. It is by interrupting
thinking as usual the taken for granted understandings and worldviews that shape
cognitive and meta cognitive styles and practices- that managing difference can do the
most for youth growing up today.
- Global changes in culture deeply affect educational policies, practices and institutions.

Economic Issues on Globalization

- David Bloom, Harvard Economist, argues that because of globalization, education is
more important than ever before in history. He deploys a vast array of up-to-date data on
the state of global education in much of the developing world. Blooms materials prompt
both optimism and caution. He claims that growing worldwide inequality, indexed by
increasing gaps and income and well-being generally mimics a continuing and growing
global gap in education.
- He also argues that increasing efforts to improve basic education particularly in
developing countries will surely help narrow income gaps with developed countries.
Education he claims, is clearly a strong trigger for positive development spirals. He
cites estimates that in the developing world, each additional year of basic education
corresponds to a rise over 10 percent in the individuals earning power. According to him,
the challenges and opportunities brought about by globalization include a more
competitive world economy, the increasing importance of cross-national communication,
and the rapid speed of change. Bloom points out that globalization also brings about
opportunities for education, particularly in the ways that new technologies can be put to
work to improve both the quantity and quality of education worldwide.
- Education creates a capacity to mitigate the disparities in the world today that are
potentially very destabilizing, both from an economic and a political point of view.
- Howard Gardner, Graduate School of Education Professor in Cognition and Education,
proposed a number of changes to American pre-college education that he said he could
help the young people better comprehend and engage with their changing world.
Education should help students synthesize information from a variety of disciplines and
geographies, so they understand how economics inform politics.
- Gardner disparaged standardized testing, in its current form because it fails to measure
the skills of understanding and making sense that students will need in a globalizing
world.
- Globalization will continue to be a vector of worldwide change. We need better
understanding of how education will be transformed by globalization and how it, in turn,
can shape and manage the course of globalization. We need a major research agenda to
examine how education most broadly defined can best prepare children to engage in a
global world. We need better theoretical understanding of globalizations multiple faces-
economic, demographic, social and cultural. We need more dialogue between scholars,
practitioners and policy makers.
Political Issues on Globalization
- Constraint on national or state policy making posed by external demands from
transnational institutions.
- Economic coordination and exchange have become increasingly well-regulated, and as
stronger institutions emerge to regulate global economic activity, with globalization there
has also been a growing internationalization of an inadequate development of political
institutions to address them.
Conflict and Consensus perspectives on the Role of Education in Understanding Globalization
- The phenomenon virtual terra incognita, education is at the center of this uncharted
content. We have barely started to consider how these accelerating transnational
dynamics are affecting education, particularly pre-collegiate education. Instead
educational systems worldwide continued mimicking and often mechanically copying
from each other and borrowing curricula, teaching methods and assessment tests.
- Educations challenge will be to shape the cognitive skills, interpersonal sensibilities, and
cultural sophistication of children and youth whose lives will be both engaged in local
contexts and responsive to larger transnational processes.
- Globalization engenders complexity. Throughout the world it is generating more intricate
demographic profiles, economic realities and identities. Globalizations increasing
complexity necessitates a new paradigm for learning and teaching.
Globalization and its Impact on Education
1. The needed reforms within the educational system like content, equality, sand excellence.
2. The fall out of globalization, which will entail determining strategies relating to the
impending internationalization of education, finance-related issues and privatization of
secondary and higher education.
Needed reforms in Education
1. Content of Education
a. Curriculum Up-gradation
b. Productivity Orientation

2. The Fall Out of Globalization
a. Internationalization of Education
b. Finance-related issues
c. Privatization of secondary and higher education