The Globalization of Multicultural Education

Whatever its specific connotations, and there are many, the term “multicultural education” speaks to questions of how school children are taught about their own social identity and the identity of others. As I argue in part one, the logic of mass schooling in nation-states already contains contradictions that sooner or later will raise questions about multiculturalism in any educational system. However, the “epochal” dimensions of globalization, such as wide-scale human migration and intensification of global communication, have complicated social identities within many nations and therefore stimulated public debate on how pluralism is recognized in the curriculum and pedagogy of national school systems. The cultural and economic trends, which have been concomitant with globalization, fuel national debates on multiculturalism in contradictory fashions. In part two I illustrate how, in the case of language in educational policy, globalization stimulates both greater acceptance of bilingual education and, in many communities, less acceptance of it. The paper concludes with an argument that the issues associated with multicultural education increasingly become an aspect of global educational debate; they converge around a common perspective of intercultural education.Watch movie online The Transporter Refueled (2015)