The Global Classroom - An Opportunity for Empowerment or Exploitation? - Literature Notes

Last updated Aug 15, 2023

See Sources/The Global Classroom - An Opportunity for Empowerment or Exploitation - Publication #literaturenotes

• Transnational education: arrangements/partnerships between institutions and organizations where students are located in a different country to the insititution
• Not what I’m covering in Atlas/Projects/Fast Food Education, but could be similar since distance learning
• Educational institutions are unable to respond to increased demand and technological developments. This is because of…
  • Institutional barriers
  • Slow adoption of new technologies
• Benefits of transnational education:
  • increase capacity to meet demand
  • bring needed experience and professional development to disadvantaged countries
  • help to expand a higher education system
  • increase country’s supply of highly skilled workers
  • adds variety and choice to domestic systems
  • ^ by introducing competition and potential for greater innovation
  • enhance range, quality, etc. of domestic programs
  • reduce “brain drain”
    • students can still keep in contact with homelands and participate in capacity building
    • students can still contribute to local knowledge economy
• Similar to Atlas/Projects/Fast Food Education:
  • bringing knowledge and experience to disadvantaged countries
  • increase supply of highly-skilled workers
  • reduce brain drain?
    • students would no longer have to go abroad
  • cost savings
• Cons of Transnational Education:
  • questionable quality
    • may be short-term and unsustainable
  • commodification of education
  • irrelevant to local needs; culturally inappropriate -> devaluation of local kmowledge & cultural homogenization
  • maintaining patterns of domination
  • may worsen equity problems
    • digital divide
    • social and economic disparities
• Similar to Atlas/Projects/Fast Food Education:
  • questionable quality
    • see templated projects
    • Lambda school free curriculum lel
  • commodification of education
    • Cards/Vocational education
    • See Miscellaneous Notes/Literature Notes/Learning to earn vs. learning to learn - Literature Notes
  • devaluation of local knowledge & cultural homogenization
    • westernized standards
    • Not boring design
    • Cards/Decolonizing design
    • Similar to Sources/The case study factory - Essay?
  • may worsen equity problems
    • Cards/Digital learning exacerbates and reproduces inequality
• Global classroom teacher needs:
  • culturally/globally competent
    • starts with self-awareness of own cultural norms and expectations
  • approach with acceptance and curiousity
  • recognize and respond to differences between high and low context cultures
  • adopt greater flexibility
    • use a variety of instruc-tional tools, methodologies and student/instructor roles
    • value simplicity in tools