| Title | Chapter 4: Anti-globalisation in comparative and international education |
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| Contributor | Charl C Wolhuter(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.4102/aosis.2024.BK434.04 |
| Landing page | https://books.aosis.co.za/index.php/ob/catalog/book/434 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Charl C Wolhuter 2024. Licensee: AOSIS (Pty) Ltd. The moral right of the author has been asserted. |
| Publisher | AOSIS |
| Long abstract | This chapter focuses on the societal trend of globalisation and how this trend has been interpreted by the comparative and international education scholarly community. The response of scholars of comparative and international education to globalisation can be plotted along two axes. The first axis pertains to assessments of the strength of the force of globalisation as a shaping force of (national) education systems. The second axis is a value judgement as to globalisation. Regarding the first axis, comparativists can be placed on a spectrum as to where they place the locus of shaping forces of education systems, from the global to the national to the local. On the second axis, while three positions can be distinguished – namely, pro-globalisation, other-globalisation and anti-globalisation– it is the anti-globalisation position that dominates the field. A central part of the anti-globalisation camp’s criticism is that globalisation (at least in its present form) strengthens Northern hegemony. This chapter concludes that globalisation is a fact, and scholars in the field cannot and should not attempt to reverse the gear of history. Scholars of comparative and international education should reveal the ways in which globalisation reinforces Northern hegemony; at the same time, they should search for ways in which the force of globalisation can also be utilised to the benefit of the Global South. This chapter singles out current trends of degloblalisation and the accelerated internationalisation of higher education as two topics requiring special attention and offering special opportunities to scholars in the field. |
| Print length | 17 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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Charl C Wolhuter studied at the University of Johannesburg, the University of Pretoria, the University of South Africa and Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) in comparative education at Stellenbosch University. He was a junior lecturer in history of education and comparative education at the University of Pretoria and a senior lecturer in history of education and comparative education at the University of Zululand. Currently, he is a comparative and international education professor at the Potchefstroom campus of the North-West University, South Africa. He has held visiting professorships at, among others, Brock University, Canada; Driestar Pedagogical University, the Netherlands; the University of Crete, Greece; Canterbury Christ University, United Kingdom; the University of Joensuu, Finland; the University of Queensland, Australia; the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy; Mataj Bel University, Slovakia; Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University, Ukraine; University of Zhengzhou, China; the University of Namibia, Namibia; the University of the Western Cape, SouthAfrica; the Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen, Germany; the University of Latvia, Latvia; the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; the University of Tarapaca, Chile; and San Martín University, Argentina. He is the author of various books and articles on the history of education and comparative education. He is also the assistant editor of the journal Comparative Education Review.