Globalization as a Challenge to Education: Integrated and Holistic Approach for Developing Human Capital And Strategic Skills

Abstract

Globalization is a process of Westernization and Western hegemony from the world’s great powers. It is the emission from the summit of western material civilization which makes equipment and communications technology as the core of the ‘invasion’ in new forms. The open sky technologyand the satellite technology enable the globalization to be easier and more effective. Consequently, the real world becomes smaller, the restructuring of the system, geopolitical boundaries and cultures are more open and lifestyle is more ‘utilitarian’ in nature. The objective of globalization is to create an informative and knowlegeable society and its effects will directly involve the socio-economic, educational, cultural, multi-media and research of a country. Although there are comparative advantages in the process of globalization, but from the perspective of philosophy and objective of globalization itself, it can threaten the fundamental strength of a nation or a group with regards to the value systems, religions, cultures and ways of life.

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