Education between Globalisation and Local Culture: A World without Frontiers for Students without Traditions?

Autor/in	Volk, Lucia
Titel	Education between Globalisation and Local Culture: A World without Frontiers for Students without Traditions?
Quelle	(2000), (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Adult Education; Adult Learning; Anthropology; Case Studies; Corporations; Cultural Background; Cultural Context; Cultural Exchange; Definitions; Developing Nations; Economic Change; Educational Change; Educational Environment; Educational Needs; Educational Objectives; Educational Philosophy; Educational Policy; Educational Principles; Educational Technology; Educational Trends; Elementary Secondary Education; Foreign Countries; Global Approach; International Organizations; Internet; Lifelong Learning; Local History; Needs Assessment; Policy Formation; Position Papers; Preservation; Role of Education; School Business Relationship; Social Change; Technological Advancement; Trend Analysis; Lebanon + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Adulte education; Anthropologie; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Unternehmen; Kulturaustausch; Begriffsbestimmung; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Ökonomischer Wandel; Bildungsreform; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsprinzip; Unterrichtsmedien; Bildungsentwicklung; Ausland; Globales Denken; International organisation; International organisations; International organization; Internationale Organisation; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Ortsgeschichte; Bedarfsermittlung; Politische Betätigung; Positionspapier; Bildungsauftrag; Sozialer Wandel; Technological development; Technologische Entwicklung; Trendanalyse; Libanon
Abstract	An anthropological examination of the impact of globalization on education in the Arab world reveals that education is standing on uneasy middle ground between the Westernization of educational structures and philosophies and the preservation of national and local customs and traditions. The transformation of education from a means to acquire a father's trade to a commodity in the global market system is most obvious among the upper socioeconomic classes. Because today's high-paying jobs require international travel and communications and awareness of technological advances and their application in the workplace, education is losing its role as a national integration machine and becoming a derivative of the global market, which may be characterized as follows: English-based, deterritorialized, and reliant on analytical skill and the problem-solving skills and dexterity needed to react to constant flux and change. Case scenarios of Beiruti teenagers studying at American schools in Lebanon illustrate that, although international schools and universities are increasingly exposing the Lebanese teenagers who attend them to Western culture, these schools cannot transcend their local and national environments, which formulate the "hidden curriculum" for student learning. The case scenarios also demonstrated that students appropriate foreign cultural forms in context-specific ways, which makes them creators of a new culture. (Contains 18 references.) (MN)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC