Connections Between Globalization and Education

Travis K. McElroy 

MED 560 / Secondary Teaching Methods 

10 February 2014 

Amy Denney

5 Connections Between Globalization and Education

•Political agendas may be pushed that benefit wealthy nations at the expense of the world’s poor; legitimizes actions of richer nations (Aldridge, 2008).

•Today’s secondary students in the United States will be faced with this as they grow up, enter the workplace, and interact with a more globalized society

#1 – Richer Nations vs. Poorer Nations - TREND

•Globalization represents great potential for education, but has widened the gap between wealthy and impoverished countries with respect to knowledge and technology, creating “haves” and have-nots” (Aldridge, 2008).

•Secondary students in the United States will not only experience this on a macro, global scale, but on a micro, local scale where some school districts are more financially well-off than others

#2 – Knowledge Economy and Technology - CHALLENGE

•In some countries, females are not allowed to be educated and their standing is diminished (Aldridge, 2008).•Even in an advanced, first world nation such as Japan, female secondary students could be placed at a disadvantaged when they enter the workplace

#3 – Social Injustices and Disparities - ISSUE

•Should instruction take place in the mother tongue, or more of a lingua franca like English? Possibly threatens local cultures and identities (Gobbo, 2011).

•Current secondary students who wish to perform outreach in the future or perhaps embark on a mission will face this when visiting foreign countries where English is not widely spoken

#4 – Which Language to Use? - ISSUE

•Many of these groups will be resistant to change and will cling to cultural and local roots (Gobbo, 2011).•Again, current secondary students who wish to perform outreach in the future or perhaps embark on a mission will face this when visiting foreign countries where English is not widely spoken

#5 – Getting Local /Indigenous Groups to Absorb External Sources of Info - CHALLENGE

ReferencesAldridge, J., & Christensen, L. M. (2008). Globalization and education. Childhood

Education, 85(1), 64-66. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/210392309?accountid=458

 Gobbo, F. (2011, March). Review essay: Globalization and education: Comparative

perspectives. International Sociology, 26(2), 170.