Globalisation

Definition

Time-space compression

Cultural Consciousness

Links to ICT and media technology

Not a new process

Pang (2016)- not a new process - has been a constant part of human history but what appears to be new is the pace with which such migrations are accomplished and the relative weakness of the barriers by nation states

No clear definition

Pang, 2016 - no universally accepted conceptualisation of globalisation

Pang (2016)- links to idea that the world is becoming more uniform and standardized

Pang (2016) increased economic and cultural independence

Pang (2016) product of the emergence of a global economy

Pang (2016) - New communication technologies that expanded world trade as well as cultural interaction

Zadja (2015) Economic rationalism and neo-conservatism has become a dominant ideology - education has been seen as a producer of goods and services that foster economic growth -

Impacts of Globalisation on Education

Zadja (2015) Noeliberal ideals promoted by globalization has impacted education -education seen a a means to economic growth

Zajda (2015) - This impacts on the ideals - human rights, social justice, ethnic tolerance and collectively are exchanged for global economy ideals - productivity, competitiveness, efficiency and the maximisation of profit.

Zajda (2015) has many intended and uninted consequences on nation states

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Zajda (2015) - No visible general consensus as to what constitutes its fundamental characteristics or core processes

Zajda (2015)Nearly 3,000 definitions of globalisation were offered in 1998 alone, contested interpretations of globalisation

Rust & Jacob (2006) (cited in Zajda, 2015) Globalisation is defined, dominated and controlled by giant transnational corporation and market forces, which are, at times, almost borderless

Zajda (2015) Globalisation not new - idea as ancient as the history of human civilisation

Zajda (2015) Economic hegemony from the north in terms of providing the sole model to be adopted by nations of the globe

Globalisation as a concept refers both to the compression of the world and the intensifi cation of consciousness of the world as a whole’ (Robertson 1992 , p. 8, cited in Zajda, 2015)

Stigliz (20020, cited in Zajda (2015) - accompanied by the creation of new institutions that have joined with existing ones to work across borders

Rizvi & Lingard, (2009) Contested definitions - 3 different views on this - some sceptics

Rizvi & Lingard (2009) - Not an entirely new phenomenon - already evident in the second half of the 19th century

Rizvi & lingard (2009) - intrinsically linked to advances in transport and information and communication technology - circulation of ideas and information

Idea of interlinking

Rizvi & Lingard (2009) Globalization is used to understand the various ways that the word is becoming increasingly interconnected and interdependent - benefits some communities and peoples more than other

Olssen (2006) argue that there are two different parts to globalisation - the interconnectedness and the discursive system pursued at the policy level by powerful states and international capital

Olssen (2006) While these two parts are related, they can be seen as a conceptually distinct, with the second part more directly related to neoliberalism

Possibility of Globalisation as a force for good

Geo-Jaja & Zajda (2015) - globalisation has the potential to positively affect wealth creation and bring about social justice in education, but its current design has not allowed the achievement of these noble goals

Geo-Jaja & Zajda (2015) - linked globalisation with a neo-liberal ideology, decentralisation, marketisation and the privatisation of education as a characterised by the commodification of knowledge, skills and learning activities

Geo-Jaja & Zajda (2015) -beoliberal ideology of globalisation marketises education programs that were once provided by government and sipported by taxes- it also agitates trade liberalisation to the benefits of transnational corporarions' penetration of local markets

Geo-Jaja & Zajda (2015) - socio-economic restructuring due to globalisation - nation states have become increasingly internationalised - withdrawn from their social responsibility to provide and administer public resources to promote social justice

Geo-Jaja & Zajda (2015) - "Education has become increasingly conceived of as an instrument of economic policy _ find page number

Geo-Jaja & Zajda, 2015- Primary motivating interest behind globalisation is its desire to shape the worlds education in ways that would be most beneficial to the business interests of its transnational companies

Geo-Jaja & Zajda (2015) Accentuation of inequalities by breaking communities into small units that are virtually powerless - globalisation culminates in an inequitable distribution of education with enormous human costs

GeoJaja & Zajda (2015) Brought the free market into education but with serious negative ramifications and significant social and economic costs

Geo-Jaja & Zajda (2015) Fails to recognise the contribution made by indigenous education

Role of language - ignores the cognitive and affective role of the mother tongue in schooling - insist students in Africa learn english and french before being taiught

overwhelms indigenous educational systems with a commodified and homogenised transtaional education

Educatin is made subject to the prescription of economism in all aspcets

Geo-Jaja & Zadja (2015) Social and cultural concerns take a back seat to economic concerns

Edwards et al (2019) - Major trend in education is the increase in private schools directed at the poor and relatively less affluent - clear evidence that in the context of globalization, international actors such as corporations, international aid agencies, development banks, philanthropists and edu-entrepreneurs are promoting these types of schools not only as a means to make profit but also as a way to meet the excess demand for educationthat governments are unable to meet

4 billion people in middle and lower classes as the "fortune at the bottom of the pyramid " _cited in Edwards et al

Edwards et al, (2019) However not solely driven by these actors - often the result of organic activity at the local level - enterprising individuals responding to the lack of government service

Low Fee Private schools have proliferated in low income countries - due to the state being passive

One tragic consequence for the state of ignoring the quality of public education is that it eventually contributes to its own marginalization in the eyes of its citizens—that is, marginalized populations end up contributing to the marginalization of the public education system when they begin to prefer private schools, even if that means paying more for what is often still a low-quality education where “children may not be achieving basic competencies” (Ashley et al., 2014, p. 1).(cited in Edwards et al, 2019)

Edwards et al (2019) LFPs still have high fees relative to household income - often involves significant sacrifices

Edwards et al (2019) However, they to contribute to access, particularly for ECCE schools, where there are very very few government schools

Edwards et al (2019) Parents may not be aware of appropriate pedagogic practices for preeschools - so they cannot assess the quality of the education on offer

Edwards *et al (2019) - leaders of various political parties described as local agents of foreign capital, local representatives of global capital, or what has historically been colonial interests

Pang (2016) - potential effects are many and far reaching

Move to a knowledge economy

Pang (2016)- production economy has been overtaken by the knowledge economy - this has led to countries taking action to enhance their competitive edge by enhancing the skills and abilities of their population, linking to human capital theory

Pang (2016) However these effects differ based on the country - as countries respond to globalisation in different ways according to factors such as their size - the educational response that they take to globalisation depends on their real financial situations, their interpretation of that situation and their ideological position regarding the role of the public sector in education

Pang (2016) - old fashioned values such as wisdom trust compassion grace and honesty - become contracts, markets, choice, competition - instrumental skills of efficiency, accountability and planning

Pang (2016) - two major strategies that have been employed to enhance a nations productivity and competitiveness in the global situation, decentralization and the creation of a market in education, have been the two major strategies used to restructure education

Carnoy (2002, cited in Pang, 2016) - argues that education will become more efficient if it is restructured on market principles and based upon competitive market relations where individual choice is facilitated

Forsey et al (2008) - calls for choice are indeed global, but their spread is uneven - assumes forms and emphases that depend on their local, social, political, economic and historical contexts

Phillips & Stamback (2008) - choice is not really the correct word to describe it, particularly for poorer families or families in rural areas, choice implies that at a given moment, you are faced with a number of paths, all possible - that is not the case - link this to low fee paying private schools

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Pang (2016)- most governments are under greater pressure to produce a more educated labour force

Assessment of education

Pang (2016) - Quality of education is increasingly being compared internationally - ie TIMSS & PISA

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Content of education

Pang (2016) - greater emphases on mathematics and science curricula, English as a foreign language, and communication skills

Inequalities in education related to globalisation

Pang (2016) - globalisation has led to greater social and economic inequality - educational access, while expanded- has become more unequal in quality - Greater decentralisation and privatisation of education has not generally led to increased equality in educational services, but rather led to more inequality

Pang (2016) - the question of whether globalisation in its various manifestations, is bad or good for education, remains unanswered

Rizvi & Lingard (2009) - neoliberalism - preference for the minimalist state - promotion of the values of competition, economic efficiency and choice, deregulate and privatize state functions - growth first approach, social welfare concerns are secondary - this view sometimes referred to as globalism

Rizvi & Lingard (2009) - privilege economic over political and cultural processes

Educators as global citizens

Rizvi & Lingard (2009) - recent calims about globalisation and ideological practices - how do people internalise these, and how do they affect their world view?

Rizvi & Lingard (2009) - Neoliberal social imaginaries – discipline people and shape their conduct – biopower – governments less interested in imposing laws and and more in engaging in tactics and strategies to ensure consent through policies, both symbolic and material. He argues that governments are deeply concerned with the art of government … with securing the fragile link between ruler and ruled, through the ‘art of manipulating relations of power’.

Rizvi & Lingard (2009) - globalisation from above - neoliberal - transnational corporate elite vs globalisation from below- that preferred by a whole range of social movements committed to global justice and democracy

Rizvi & Lingard (2009) - the values that national systems of education promote through policy are no longer determined solely by policy actors within the nation state, but are forged through a range of complex processes that occur in transnational and globally networked spaces

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Major role of the global media

Rizvi & Lingard (2009) - The media also play a more significant role than ever before – impact on the authority of the state.


In the formation and promotion of the neoliberal social imaginary, global media have also played a major role. The media have become centrally important in the processes of policy production. The production of policy texts inside the state has become increasingly ‘mediatized’ as an element of what Fairclough (2000) calls the ‘mediatization’ of politics and policy. More journalists are involved in the finessing of policy documents to place the appropriate spin on them to ensure positive renditions in the media of policy development. This has seen a ‘glossification’ of policy texts. Fairclough (ibid.: 157) suggests that language is central to the practices of government, but the involvement of journalists in policy text production brings another logic of practice to bear on the texts produced (Bourdieu 1996).

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Policy Borrowing

Rizvi & Lingard (2009) - shifts in public policy processes have led to the neoliberal view of education becoming dominant globally - due to promotion by many intergovernental and non governmental organisations - ie World Bank and OECD - major policy players

Role of Global Media - centrally important mediatization of politics and policy, glossification of policy texts

Rizvi & Lingard (2009) - There is no alternative but to pursue neo-liberal policies - this is not the case

Issues with international aid

Rizvi & Lingard (2009)Consolidation of ideological power in the Global South - politics of international aid - major dilemma - on one hand - almost impossible for the countries in severe economic difficulties to reject the offer of help - but this often means they have to accept alienating and exploitative policies that perhaps have little chance of success in the longer term - ultimately require nation states to concede autonomy, and pass legislation designed more to create conditions conducive to investment of international capital than to the improvement of social conditions and educational opportunities

Rizvi & Lingard (2009) International lending companies demand restructuring of education systems as a condition of loans to developing countries - so do TNCS offering invest in them - education must be restructured with policies conducive to creating a human resource pool they need as low cost labour

Rizvi & Lingard (2009) - there are different and competing ways of interpreting the contemporary realities of global interconnectivity and interdependence, and of deriving educational implications from them - however these competiing imaginaries do not exist in a neutral space, but in a context where neo-liberalism has become dominant

Rizvi & Lingard (2009) The efforts of organisations such as the OECD, World Bank, UNESCO have led to policy borrowing, transfer, appropriation and copying of ideas across national boundaries as never before

Rizvi & Lingard (2009) - education systems have seemingly mimicked each other - pursuing a common set of solutions to their fiscal and organizational problems - despite pressure on educational systems to diversify to meet the diverse needs that the systems have

Rizvi & Lingard (2009) - corporatisation and marketisation of education - greater demands for accountability and surveillence

Rizvi & Lingard (2009) - enormous pressure on educational systems to not only increase the amount of formal education, but align the content of this education with the alleged requirements of the global economy

Rizvi & Lingard (2009) - policy debates around the world display an almost universal deepening of s shift from social democratic to neoliberal orientations

Wu & GeoJaja (2016)
Western colonialism via international aid in education - mismatch between donor and recipients

Wu & Geo-Jaja (2016) - "instrument that leads to vulnerability and dependency of recipients rather than fostering education pluralism and language security that could strengthen identity for community development " (page 5-6)

Wu & Geo-Jaja (2016) - helpers have often failed humanity by providing prepackaged conditions rather than focusing on the multidimensionalities of poverty and deprivation experienced by others

Wu & Geo-JaJa (20160 " Education, under this framework, loses its very fundamental ability to alleviate pervasive poverty", cited on page 8 - check this - ie under the framework of neoliberalism

Wu & Geo-Jaja (2016) - goal is to train people instead of inspiring them

Wu & Geo-Jaja (2016) - "Education will merely be a form of second colonialism if teachers ingrain in learners the belief that his/her liberation is succumbing to universal standardisation (10)

Wu & Geo-JaJa (2016) - fosters uniformity of cultural and knowledge systems - universalised and one-size fits all approach hinders voice of recipients from being heard and takes no consideration of chronic and transient un-devellopment and underdevelopment

Wu & GeoJaJa (2016) - Neoliberalism – people seen as commodities that are required to learn universal skills and knowledge predetermined by donors so that they can compete in the local market  - key and dominant ideologies that guides development cooperation – anti-dialogical actions that align very well with globalization and market based practices

Wu & GeoJaja (2016) - schooling reinforces social inequities, causes some to be confined to the bottom of the poverty ladder

Aid donors make explicit colonization of process by way of consciously elevating their own language and deliberately devaluing receiving nations’ cultures, religions and education systems – method of imposing dominant ideas  - Wu& Geo-Jaja:10


Indigenous education systems are also being replaced by irrelevant, limited and purposefully imposed languages and related structures of learning by donors as political considerations to attach dominant political ideologies to the local social welfare system (Babaci-Wilhite, 2012). These political conditionalities neither reflect local people’s best interests, nor do they contribute to foster promotion of culture of education and capacity-building development.  - Wu & Geo-Jaja, 2016:12

Solving Issues with international aid

Wu & Geo-JaJa (2016) - Should adopt a rights capability approach – Sen and Nussbaum  


Rights in education – focuses on localising curricula and incorporating local pedagogic approaches to learning – empower rather than disempower children – develop critical thinking.

THIS IS ALL BECAUSE INTERNATIONAL AID FOCUSES ON RIGHT TO EDUCATION RATHER THAN RIGHTS IN EDUCATION

Link to idea of hope in education

PISA Studies - PISA, the world’s most comprehensive and reliable indicator of students’ capabilities, it is also a powerful tool that countries and economies can use to fine-tune their education policies (OECD, 2020)

Unreliability of PISA - many countries at the top were states of cities/Finland far fewer EAL speakers - Kidd, 2014

Rizvi & Lingard (2009) - additionally, national policy makers take note of not only the comparative data, bit also the educational values that have become globally dominant

Rizvi & Lingard (2009) - policy shift towards privatisation has widened inequalities across nations and within communities - made the goals of gender and racial equity ,more difficult to realize - hegemonic globalisation has greatly benefited some countries and groups of people, but has had disasterous consequences for others - whos economic prospects have declined, and whos cultural traditions have become eroded

Verger et al (2017) Makes reference to the global presures that countries face to become a knowledge economy - put intense pressure on governments to consider introducing substantive changes to their education systems

Verger et al (2017) - Educational privatisation has become a global phenomenon and the role of the private sector has become central to ongoing debates about educational reform - is constantly increasing all over the world in both secondary and primary schools

Verger et al (2017) Far from being a monolithic process, develops in a polymorphic manner - different depending on the country- educational privatisation is a globalizing trend, but processes of educational privatisation are far from following a similar pattern worldwide

Verger et al (2017) - the quality advantage of these schools is a highly contested theme, and existing research shows inconclusive and contradicting results

Effectiveness of private schools

Ashley et al (2014) - pupils attending private schools tend to achieve better outcomes than teachers in state schools

Ashley et al (2014) However, a very large proportion of the schools are unregistered and overall learning levels are worryingly low - so private advantage is likely to be overestimated as is calculated relative to incredibly low achievement levels in state schools

Ashley et al (2014) Gender disparity is generally largrer in private schools than in public schools, this is particularly true in Pakistan and India - rigorous evidence from Pal and Kingdon (2010)

Gender Gap in private school education was twice as large as that in public schools, and was increasingly over time in Rural areas (India) (Maitra et al, 2011, cited in Ashley et al (2014)

Harma (2011) argues that this is likely due to selection bias towards boys linked to household poverty - where poor households cannot afford to send all their children to private school, and therefore have to choose between them, they are more likely to select boys (cited in Ashley et al, 2014(

Ashley et al, 2014 - directly refute the assumption that competition is good for overall education outcomes, particularly in terms of equity - market competition between private and public schools - not only did private schools have no effect on the quality of government schools, bit exit from government schools by those who could afford to pay fees was seen to condemn the poorest households to lower quality government schooling (Harma & Rose, 2012)

Ashley et al (2014) evidence from economic theory that the presence of private schools/market competition should enhance the performance of all school types is weak and contested

Geo-Jaja & Zadja (2015) - the error is not the existence of globalisation, but its ideological underpinnings and misuse therof of its application - globalisation can and should be reconstructed to ensure that weak nation states can get a fair share and opportunity in the new global economy

Geo-Jaja and Zadja (2015) - led to the marginalisation of local knowledge and local initiatives

Ampuja (2015( globalisation theory is in a crucial sense consistent with neoliberalism - weakening of the power of the nation state

Zadja (2015) Siz major agencies currently involved in monitoring educational outcomes world wide

IEA - International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement _ PRLSS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study TIMSS - Studies of trends in performance and the Civic Education Study

PISA - Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) this agency is sponsored by the OECD and is based in paris - assesses the competencies of 15 year old students in the domains of literacy in reading, mathematics and science - lino to how this is more of a focus on english, maths and science as a curriculum, as these are the only things measured

Southern and East African Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) - 15 southern and East African Countries

Latin American Laboratory for the Evaluation of Quality in Education - supported by UNESCO

The World Bank - based in Washington DC- currently supports assessment and evaluation studies in individual countries - assessments are made as conditions of loans to low income countries - link to how education systems are controlled as a condition of loans

PISA and IEA serve very high human development countries, alomg with LLECE, SAMEQ and PASEC support low development countries

Zadja (2015) it is only through globalisation of education across the world that the many challenges to face the human race on planet earth can be met

Soudien (2015) - the increasing economic inequality, exploitation and instability evident in the world today were not the automatic product of globalisation, but the result of a particular brand of free market globalisation - a more positive form is possible

Soudien (2015) the globalisation of capital is fuelled by a neoliberal ideology

How to do this in practice, is not clear - we need to develop deep forms of engagement with the range of knowledges that people have access to - develop critical sense - this deep form of engagement will not guarantee that young people will become better people, but the chances that they will be able to deal with the complexity of globalisation more assuredly, and with a generous sense of themselves in relation to the world must cretainly be increased (Soudien, 2015(

Zajda (2015) - democratic processes are overturned - need to rediscover one's social identity in active citizenshiip - evolving and constantly changing notions of national identity, language, border politics and citizenship, which are relevant to education policy need to be critiqued

Phillips (2015) Policy borrowing has always existed in some ways, motivated by a desire to gain useful lessons from abroad - throughout the 19th century, there was much study of foreign systems of education, Prussia and France figuring prominently as target countries

Phillips (2015) - however some argue that policy borrowing itself is not feasible - it lacks consideration of the things outside the school - the context which the school is placed within

Phillips (2015)- the outcomes of negative externaal evaluation such as TIMMS and PISA can lead to policy borrowing

Ashley et al (2014) - Private schools may not be financially sustainable - particularly LFPs may be vulnerable to closiing down after short periods of time

Rizvi & Lingard (2009) - Policy making is a fundamentally political process - it involves major trade offs between values- priveleging some values ahead of others - a commitment to market values has not involved them to reject a cincern for social equality- but it has required that the meaning of equality be rearticulated - ditto with autonomy

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Effect on environment - Education for Sustainable Development

Trott (2019) - behaviours advocated by most environmental education programs are highly individualised and consist of small things pupils can do in their everyday life - this arises from the internalisation of neoliberal values, with an emphasis on competition, consumerism and individualism

This is despite the well documented link between pro-environmental action and sense of agency (Trott, 2019)

Trott (2019)This is problematic because focusing exclusively on lifestyles and behavioural choices can serve to misrepresent the primary sources of climate change - as rooted in energy sources and infrastructure - which are in turn embedded within global economic and political systems that hinder transformation and obscure accurate visions for alternative, sustainable futures and what actions are necessary to realise them

Kenis (2012) - Individual behaviour change becoming a 'holy grail' to tackle climate change - this is contested by those who advocate collecyive social action

Kenis (2012) the individual behaviour change approach risks sidestepping the human societal context from which the problem arose, but also the possibility for people to engage in strategic reflection and draw their own conclusions on the kind of actions required - in otherwords, stops people from becoming really empowered citizens and potential subjects of change

Kenis (2012) - Role of teachers could be make the range of possible analyses, visions and strategic options visible and to make their assumptions, effects and implications explictit - of central importance to disclose the ideological character of the debate - abstract level of the principles - in an effort to close the gap betwen knowledge and action

Bengtsson & Ostman (2016) Education for Sustainable Development has been associated with the dispersion of neoliberal ideologies - contributing to globalisation as aform of homogenisation by providing prescriptive formulas that diminish the conceptual space for self determination, alternative ways of thinking and autonomy

Bengtsson & Ostman (2014) - ESD entains and promotes globalising ideologies that run counter to the ambitions of a strong environmentalist perspective

Globalisation as a force for good examples - Education for Sustainable Development

Ojala (2017) - a specific focus on hope should be included in ESD- however need to ground desirable futures in realities and in discussions about value conflicts

Ojala (2017) - also vital to encourage critical discussions around aspects - ie concrete actions, individual consumer behaviours, power dynamics - linkk to critical pedagogy

Ojala (2017) - Different views of desirable futures and pathways to reach these future goals need to be critically discussed in the classroom. It could also be argued that disrupting unsustainable habits, norms, and practices is not enough for transformative learning to take place; one also needs critical awareness and disruption of ‘unsustainable’ ways of regulating emotions.- importance of hope in education for sustainable development – shows that another way of being is possible – giving pupils the opportunity to work together for change

This could deal with the significant anxieties and hopelessness pupils often face when learning about climate change

Ojala (2017) - importance of social cohesion and trust - pedagogy of invitation - helps pupils face and respect a diversity of standpoints and conflicting views about sustainability and the future

Collective Action

Trott (2019) Moreover, collective engagement can promote children’s hope and well-being—by creating conditions that allow children to feel part of a collaborative effort rather than acting in isolation (Kelsey & Armstrong, 2012). SCA provided individual (i.e., household) and collaborative (i.e., community-focused) action opportunities as a means to provide children with multiple avenues towards expanded agency

Link to dialogic practices - ie critical pedagogy

Link to Eco-Schools and corporate sponsers