Globalization and Education

Globalization is a term used to describe the increasing connectedness and interdependence of world cultures and economies.

Globalization has led to a speed-up of exchanges and movements of goods and services, technology, cultural practices, and even human beings. Joel Spring (2014) explains how globalization has led to the development of a "learning society". Globalization has over time been applied to education, which has led to both negative and positive outcomes. This paper focuses on Anthony Gary’s essay, “Globalization and Education,” explaining the main argument, as well as how the information qualifies as sociological in approach.

The main argument is that globalized processes pose vocational challenges for education. As Gary explains, globalization in education has been encouraged by the growth and changes in technology. He further explains that “The emergence of the contemporary economic and social ideologies that influence social institutions including education can be found in the restructuring of the global economic system in the early 1970s” (Ball, Anthony & Marios 224). From the evidence, it is clear that globalization did not just begin, and the challenges it poses have always existed. Education is likely to pose challenges in terms of inequality based on ethnicity, competitiveness instead of sharing, as well as changes in the health sector.

One new thing I have learned from this essay is that economic globalization also affects education and learning, especially because of its philosophies, development, priorities, and governance. By understanding this, I can apply it to my daily life and ensure that I act towards developing the economy. The best way would be to use Papageorgiou’s ‘radical approach’ (Ball, Anthony & Marios 227) to learn how I can use education to respond to societal changes resulting from globalization.

The information from the essay qualifies as sociological in approach since it explains social behavior, culture, and social interactions as well as societal patterns. The I formation explores how globalization affects education, which is part of how society interacts. The education sector is one of the major constructs in society, and looking at its pattern when globalized, makes it a sociological aspect. As the article explains, education has not met the social changes, especially in terms of globalization.

To conclude, this paper has focused on Anthony Gary’s essay, “Globalization and Education.” The paper has further explained the main argument of Gary’s essay, as well as how the information qualifies as sociological in approach. It is evident that globalization poses challenges to education and the system has failed to meet the current social changes. The key thing is to add more to the debates concerning the negative impacts of globalization on education, and how the situation can be improved.

Globalization has created much cheaper systems for educating the populace. A lot of universities are providing free courses as a shift from a judgement based education system to a skills based system that allows people to look up problems from other sources as they create solutions, learn without having to be judged by a certificate and instead be judged on skills in real time. You could take a course online and only be charged for the certificate. The greatest driving force for globalization is the internet. Information became free and accessible and the internet became a free library while the universities watched and studied the disruption. The patterns have changes as change makers like Havard university offer free courses through apps like as offering video courses for free.

Works Cited

Ball, Stephen J., Anthony Gary Dworkin, and Marios Vryonides. "Globalization and education: Introduction." (2010): 523-529.

Spring, Joel. Globalization of education: An introduction. Routledge, 2014.

Globalization definition by national geographic.