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Educational Leadership in an
Age of Globalisation
David Williams
Turning the Tide
Riding the Waveor
Whether Globalisation is a
catch-phrase of politicians or a
driver for change within
educational establishments depends on
the degree to which it is seen as a
lever or a blunt instrument
“Globalisation is an
accelerated compression of the
contemporary world and the intensification of
consciousness of the world as a singular entity.
“Compression makes the world a single place by
virtue of the power of a set of globally diffused ideas that render the uniqueness of social and ethnic
identities and traditions irrelevant except within local
contexts and in scholarly discourse.”
- Ronald Robertson, ‘Globalisation Theory & Civilised Analysis’ (1987)
“Globalisation is a process in
which economies, cultures and
societies have combined through a global
network of trade and communication”
- Patrick Doherty, ‘Globalisation and Education’ (2010)
“Globalisation can be seen as multifaceted
consisting of six strands:
• Changing concepts of space and time (shrinking)
• Increasing the numbers of cultural interactions • Commonality of problems facing everyone
• Increasing inter-dependencies and connections• The development of trans-national actors and other
organisations
• The synchronisation of these elements concerning
globalisation”- Cohen and Kennedy, ‘Global Society’ (2000)
“Trans-national corporations, multi-national corporations, governmental and non-governmental organisations are playing a leading role in the current economical development and defining the current push in education”
- Victor Roseilez, The Changing Face of Education (2007)
“The neo-liberal version of globalisation, particularly as
implemented by bilateral, multilateral and
international organisations, is reflected in an educational agenda that supports or
imposes particular policies for evaluation,
financing, assessment, standards, teacher-training, curriculum, instruction and testing.”
- Burbules and Torres, Globalisation and Education: Critical Perspectives (2000)
“successful corporations must primarily
produce brands as opposed to
products.”
- Klein, ‘Globalisation Economic Handbook’ (2010)
“It is time to recognise that the true
tutors of our children are not school
teachers or university professors but film
makers, advertising executives and
pop culture purveyors, Disney does
more than Duke; Spielburg outweighs
Stanford; MTV trumps MIT.”- Benjamin Barber