Globalisation, ideology and education reforms

Abstract

Globalisation is one of the most complex and ‘contested’ concepts (Guillen 2000). Gilpin (1987), in his theory of globalisation of economies, defi ned globalisation as he ‘increasing interdependence of national economies in trade, fi nance and macroeconomic policies’ (Gilpin 1987, p. 389). As a dominant ideology, globalisation was associated with neo-liberalism and technocratic solutions to economic reforms (Cox 1996; Zajda 2008, 2009, 2014; Geo-JaJa and Zajda 2015). Castells (1996); Kobrin (1998), and Carnoy (1999), on the other hand, stressed the informational dimension, as result of the advances in the ICT (Information Communication Technologies) of the global economy.