Globalization and Curriculum Implications

3 Credits

Investigates impact of globalization on curriculum and how curriculum has been utilized in nation building; how tensions between the global and the local are inherent in curriculum; and how curriculum is a site of construction of national and global identities. Global citizenship is one of the major curricula themes of the dynamic intersection between the global and the local. Several theoretical perspectives are presented; curricula are compared across nations to understand how globalizing curricula differs according to culture and language.