Global measure of education outcomes leads to global policy convergence, what Lingard (2005) called a new form of policy borrowing. This leads to the global comparison of education outcomes such as global standardized tests like PISA (PISA, 2011). Thus, I strongly agree with the notion that global neo-liberalism is a good benchmark for evaluating a given national educational policy since this global neo-liberal education policy demands for more accountability, transparency of education outcomes. I feel no doubt that global neo-liberal education policy now has more or less affected every education policy around the world. Globalization has made the world to become more interdependent and interconnected in terms of education, economics, politics, culture and technology. Retrieved from University of Canberra E-Reserved: Ĭonsider the argument that in order to be able to critique national education policy, we need to understand its relationship to global neo-liberalism. In Opening the doors of learning: Changing schools in South Africa. Globalization, the ‘knowledge of economy’ and education. Likewise, global flow of landscapes may bring not only positive consequences, but many adverse effects such as international crimes, exploitation now can be also seen in many parts of world.Ĭhristie, P. The snapshot of Lebohang and Thembile in Christie (2008) serves as a very good example of how new technology creates inequalities of opportunity between those who can access to it and those who cannot.
However, ‘time-space compression’ may not be beneficial to those who cannot access to modern technology. Time-space compression and global movement of landscapes provide a good picture to see how globalization affect the way people live, work, study and communicate. Overall, globalization through modern technology has really transformed almost every aspects of life in the 21st century. Many of them now also started speaking English in addition to their mother tongue. Stemming from a kindergarten teacher background in Saudi Arabia, for instance, I now can witness almost all children in my school started using IPads and IPhones for study, playing games and watching cartoons. In addition, technology, ideas, media and culture now have been freely moved across the national boundaries. In my country, Saudi Arabia, for instance, there are a huge influx of migrant workers from many countries in the region and Asia working as a construction workers, domestic servants, and in other sectors of economy. I have no doubt that international migration now can be witnessed in every country around the world.
This allows ‘free flow’ of what Appadurai called ‘global flow of landscapes’ including the global flow of people, technology, finance, media and ideas (Appadurai as cited in Christies, 2008, p. Globalization now has made the world to become more interdependent and interrelated. The other concept that I am really in favor of is ‘global flow of landscapes’ proposed by Appadurai (as cited in Christie, 2008). Thus, it is undeniably true that globalization really makes time become shorter and the world become smaller. Many students in my countries now can do online courses at many universities around the world. This helps them to use their time more efficiently and effectively. Moreover, new technology now enables university lecturers and students to teach and learn without even having to go to the university campus. For example, although now I am living in Australia, I can call and skype my relatives living in my country of origin Saudi Arabia. In addition, people living in different parts of the world now can do their business transactions at a single time unit and communicate with their relatives via modern information technology. People need just hours to travel from Europe to North America whereas in the past, people needed several weeks or months. For instance, air travel now has been the most efficient way for international travels in human history. It is definitely true that new technologies now have transformed the way people live, study, work, travel and communicate. I strongly agree with David Harvey that modern technologies can shorten time and shrink the space (David Harvey as cited in Christies, 2008). Among these theories and concepts, I am particularly interested in the concepts of ‘time-space compression’ of David Harvey and ‘global flow of landscape’ of Appadurai (David Harvey & Appadurai as cited in Christie, 2008, p.
There are numerous theories and concepts of globalization in module one reading articles.
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