Trends and Issues

Globalization and Education

Prepared by:
Ariu Carey Forteza

Trends and Issues

Globalization and Education
There are Global and national trends as well as issues that impact on curriculum development in the country.
Some issues have more impact on curriculum planning than others. Three of these concerns will be the focus of
discussion namely: (1) bilingual education, (2) early childhood care and development, and (3) global education.

1.

Bilingual Education
a. aims to make every Filipino Competent in both Filipino and English at the national level
b. being implemented by two strategies:
i. teach both languages as subjects at all levels
ii. use both as media of instruction in identified subjects at all grade levels
c. goals of bilingual education:
i. to enhance learning through two languages to achieve quality education as called for by
the 1987 Constitution
ii. to propagate Filipino as a language of literacy
iii. to develop Filipino as linguistic symbol of national unity and identity
iv. to cultivate and elaborate Filipino as an international language of scholarly discourse, that
is to say, promote its continuing intellectualization
v. to maintain English as an international language for the Philippines and as a nonexclusive language of science and technology
d. objectives of bilingual education
i. development
ii. propagation
iii. intellectualization

2.

Early Childhood Care and Development

a. Designed to maximize the capacities for psycho-social and intellectual development of pre-school
children during the formative years
b. Identified 8 strategies to realize the objectives of early childhood care and development namely:
i. managing early childhood development programs and services with emphasis on
community-based activities
ii. exploring and using various approaches to parent education
iii. including another year of preparatory schooling for six-year olds as part of the formal
school system
iv. accrediting private school programs and institutions
v. designing focused and differentiated approaches for special categories of children
vi. integrating health, nutrition and other allied services in the programs and services
vii. adapting curriculum, materials and approaches to the Filipino childs socio-cultural milieu
viii. designating a single agency to be responsible to early childhood development

3.

Global Education
a. Requires the expansion of consciousness
b. Is values education
c. Provides the cultural enrichment of all learners
Globalization
a. Globalization is the idea that our world is becoming a unified whole with little or no cultural or social
conflict. This central idea of globalization is conducive to the idea of education. For a student
seeking to extend boundaries and break barriers, globalization provides an opportunity of a lifetime.
Globalization has merits and demerits in economics, business and politics. In education it has
merits for students and educators but there is also a sense of an unhealthy takeover of education
by market forces. Broadly considered, however, Globalization is freeing the world of education from
limitations.
b. Characteristics
i. Competing values in Global Education
ii. The learning framework for global citizenship
iii. Global civic ethic
iv. Environmental Education

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