The Effects of Globalization Upon Modern Education
The aim of this website is to understand the effects of globalisation within education. The education system is fast becoming a business in itself, the rise of the neo liberalist movement in the 1980's saw a shift in the way we view education, the focus being on our standing in the global economic market, thus investment in education can be directly correlated to economic production. More control of the curriculum was taken by the government in a means to precisely shape our workforce to assist in economic growth, and thus our standing in the global market. By assessing the education system in the form of a business model, we can explore the effects that treating education like business, is having, mainly that of equality. Thus in context using social and cultural theorist Emile' Durkheim [1893] and Pierre Bourdieu [1986] to explain the operations of society, we can then relate these findings to our current education system, and highlight the inequlities that the our current globalised system produces. There are problems with context, as 'context is itself problamatic, and is the result of prior interpretation' [Dilley 2002], but this does not stop us drawing parallels with certain inequalities that are a direct manifestation of the rapidly increasing, globalised structure of our schools. At the heart of globalisation is business and education is big business.