How Do We Best Prepare Students for Life in a Global Society? Kenneth I. Millar, Ph.D. November 1,...

How Do We Best Prepare Students for Life in a Global Society?Kenneth I. Millar, Ph.D.November 1, 2010National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

How ‘Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm? (After They’ve Seen

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Personal Encounters with Globalization• Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

North Country Bluesby Bob Dylan

Implications of Globalization

• Economic forces on the other side of the globe can have profound and often devastating effects on a community.

Implications of Globalization

• There are social consequences from these effects, in this case substance abuse, premature early death of breadwinner, and a mother left alone with children.

Implications of Globalization

• The protagonist in the song comments on the ultimate death of the community due to the migration of the community’s young people away from it.

Prevelance of Globalizatoin

In 2005, an estimated 400,000 American tax returns were prepared in India; two of Microsoft’s four major research centers are in Beijing and Bangalore

Globalization in Politics: The California Senate Race

Democrat Barbara Boxer

Republican Carly Fiorina

Globalization: We Are Connected

• We live in one world. What we do affects others, and what others do affects us as never before. To recognize that we are all members of a world community and that we all have responsibilities to each other is not romantic rhetoric, but modern economic and social reality.*

• Department for Education and Skills (England). “Putting the World into World-Class Education: An international strategy for education, skills, and children’s services.”

Forces in the Global Economy

• Five forces can clearly be seen in the global economy, each requiring a different skill set for true success– A Science and Knowledge Economy– A Resource-Challenged Economy– A Globally Interdependent Economy– A Demographically Diverse Economy– An Innovation-Driven Economy

Forces in the Global Economy

• Students need to be globally competent• Investigate the World• Weigh Perspectives• Communicate Ideas• Take Action• Apply Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary

Expertise