Education, Globalization and

the Knowledge Economy

Prepared by: Beau Fe V. Taytay and Jun Fely R. Vestido
What is Education?
 The word educate comes from the latin
word educere meaning to lead out or to
bring out.
 To educate means to bring out of the
learners the spirit of learning and
wonder, the desire to know, that thirst for
knowledge.
 The education is the harmonious
development of the physical, mental,
moral and social, the four dimensions of
life.
 The illiterate of the 21st century will not
be those who cannot read and write, but
those who can learn, unlearn and relearn.
Definitions of Education
 Webster defines education as the process
of teaching to develop the knowledge,
skill, or character of the student.
 Education is the process of bringing
desirable change into the behavior of
human beings.
 It can also be defined as the process of
imparting or acquiring knowledge and habits
through instruction or study.

 Sociologist Rodney Stark declares that

“Education is the most cheapest, most rapid
and most reliable path to economic
advancement under present conditions.”
Types of Education

 Formal Education
 Non-formal Education
 Informal Education
 Formal Education
Formal Education is basically an
 Institutional Activity
 Uniform and subject oriented
 Full time
 Sequential
 Leading to certificates degrees and diplomas.
Characteristics of Formal Education

 Full time Education

 Technical and professional training
 A variety of specialized programs
 Running from primary school through the
university.
 Chronologically graded education system.
 Non-formal Education
Any organized education activity
 Outside the established formal system
whether operation separately.
 As an important feature of some broader
activity that is intended to serve
identifiable learning clienteles and learning
objectives.
Characteristics of Non-formal Education

 It is flexible.
 It is life, environment and learner centered.
 It is diversified in content and method.
Characteristics of Non-formal Education

 It is non-authoritarian.
 It is built on learner participation.
 It enhances human and environmental
potential.
 Informal Education
 The truly lifelong process whereby every
individual acquires attitude, values, skills and
knowledge from daily experience and the
educative inferences and resources in his or her
environment from family and neighbors, from
work and play, from the market place, the library
and the mass media.
Characteristics of Informal Education

 Informal Education is the least controlled,

that’s why this type education cannot be
excluded of somebody’s life.
 Informal Education consists of accidental,
unclear, quantitative information.
Characteristics of Informal Education

 Informal Education refers even to emotions,

feelings and beliefs.
 Informal Education offers responsiveness
ready to response when interact with
environment.
Characteristics of Informal Education

 Informal Education offers possibility to

freely act in unknown situation.

 Informal Education offers freedom of self-

formation.
Globalization

 Definition:
 The movement towards the expansion of
economic and social ties between countries
through the spread of corporate institutions
and the capitalist philosophy that leads to the
shrinking of the world in economic terms.
Integration of Economies
 The increasing reliance of
economies on each other
 The opportunities to be able to
buy and sell in any country in the
world
 The opportunities for labour and
capital to locate anywhere in the
world
 The growth of global markets in
finance
Integration of Economies
 Made possible by:
 Technology
 Communication networks
 Internet access
 Growth of economic cooperation – trading
blocs (EU, NAFTA, etc.)
 Collapse of ‘communism’
 Movement to free trade
 Trade versus Aid?
 Benefits of Trade:
 Increased choice
 Greater potential for
growth
 Increase international
economies of scale
 Greater employment
opportunities
 Trade versus Aid?
 Disadvantages
of trade:
 Increase in gap between the rich
and the poor
 Dominance of global trade by
the rich, northern hemisphere
countries
 Lack of opportunities for the
poor to be able to have access
to markets
 Exploitation of workers and
growers
The Knowledge Economy
 Knowledge is considered the most
democratic source of power and can be
grasped equally by the poor and the rich.
So, to be powerful in the knowledge
economy, means the ability to control
sources of knowledge.
 In the knowledge economy, growth
depends on the quantity, quality, and
accessibility of the information
available, rather than on the
conventional means of production.
 The knowledge economy has
changed the conventional power
relations in all most every walk of
life.
 In a knowledge economy everything –
individuals/households, firms and
nations get divided on the basis of their
ability to absorb, develop and apply and
create knowledge.
 Conventional means of
production like land or capital
could be used only by one
person/firm at a time. But same
knowledge can be used by several
users simultaneously
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