Abstract:

The concept of globalization which enmarks our age and debates it has brought about is characterized by a plea of transformations in the social and economic sphere. One of the fundamental transmitters of globalization and new lifestyle and thinking styles mentioned within the concept of globalization is the educational system. Given this point, education is one of the fields in which globalization debates broadly take place both because it is one of the institutions mostly affected by the politics of globalization and it is seen as an organ generalizing the politics of globalization. By this study the concept of globalization and its reflections on education is examined in terms of social and economic factors, the changes in the understanding of modernism by means of globalization and new line of thought it has brought about is undertaken and the educational consequences of neoliberal economy politics is discussed from a critical point of view. In the last chapter of the study, innovations and new possibilities in pedagogy offered by globalization is evaluated and the possible contributions of pedagogues to the new orientations in educational policies is discussed. Key words: globalization, neoliberalism, modernism, educational policies.

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