Changing Education

Changing Education: Leadership, Innovation and Development in a Globalizing Asia Pacific, Peter D. Heshock, Mark Mason and John N. Hawkins, 2007, Springer-Comparative Education Research Centre The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China)

Globalization has wrought transformation of similar scale: in how people live, work, identify and aggregate, communicate and engage locally, nationally, internationally, globally, and how they are educated. Changes are taking place in the nature of the state itself, in how states interact, and in the roles of supra and non state actors in organizing and affecting human behavior. At the core of contemporary globalization are transformations in how capital flows throughout the globe and is linked to production and consumption, in how energy is harnessed and consumed, in how information and knowledge are created, transmitted and conserved, how labor is employed and deployed, and how value is created, distributed, conserved and destroyed. (2007: 29)