Education and Globalisation

Authors: 
Lussana, Elvira
Publication date: 
2007/06/01
JEL codes: 
F01 - Global Outlook, I21 - Analysis of Education.
Abstract: 
The modernisation of process of Education (BOLOGNA process) demands of Universities to arrive at the formation of students able to research and work in an International context and to face the “change” that globalisation has caused in the New World Order and to read the big disorder that confounds today the geopolitical landscape, in other words to be able to analyse and explain the dimension and the nature of Planetary crises(political, social, cultural, environmental, economic, organisational, but above all existential).In this process of University we must keep present the thoughts of Thomas Jefferson that exalt the inseparable relation between scientific alphabetisation and civil participation that today some intellectuals like to considerer as technorealism (www.technorealism.org), a form of reflexion oriented to demolish some clichés among which that technology could resolve all market problems such as inequality and monopoly or that the markets could resolve all technological problems ”Technologies are not neutral” or Technology is not knowledge.From here the strong idea that technological comprehension must be an essential component of global citizenship.
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