globalisation

Question 1

how has globalisation impacted on education?

Answer 1

• EBACC
• multi culturalism
• different exam boards
• spread of technology
• teaching languages
• prevent (anti-racism)

Question 2

what is Hancock’s view on how globalisation affected education?

Answer 2

• educational exports from the UK (colleges, grammar/private schools, unis) to priority markets (Brazil, Russia, China etc) were worth 18bn in 2012
• educational markets are growing everywhere due to privatisation and marketisation e.g. repton

Question 3

what are some examples of international comparisons?

Answer 3

• surveys from a wide range of sources collect data of attainment of millions every year from 50+ countries
• the data collected, ranks countries by student performance and are deeply influential leading to countries re-evaluating their teaching and learning models
• UK fared poorly
• they identify the policies of high performing nations in Europe/Asia and America
• some believe these stats such as PISA have led to moral panic
• high performing nations like Japan and South Korea are inherently cultural
• national literacy/numeracy strategy in 1999-2000: every primary school should teach 2 of these twice a day
• summing down the curriculum: 2010
• raising academic requirements of teachers: from Finland - those with very high classifications degrees would be enticed in teaching

Question 4

what are some strengths for international comparisons?

Answer 4

• useful to see if spending matches achievement

Question 5

what are some weaknesses for international comparisons?

Answer 5

• all data is based and narrow understanding of what education is: Kelly 2009 - only make students sit 2/3 subjects so there is a degree of inaccuracy
• data does not necessarily show better or worse education: results may show things well beyond the control of teachers :- questions V and R of these stats
• damaging and wasteful effects of policy: Alexander 2012 - can lead to policy changes based on ill founded assertions.

Question 6

what are other impacts of Globalisation?

Answer 6

• cola-isation of schools (the private sector and international comparisons are influencing schools e.g. apple schools
• multiculturalism ( increasing migration has meant education is multicultural)
• policies in the 80s/90s promoted the achievements of E/M groups by valuing all cultures
• However - it could be argued this is tokenistic - failing to tackle institutional racism
• New right would argue it creates division rather than a shared culture