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