Education and Globalization.

Between the XV and XIX century’s, the scientific knowledge and the technical inventions produced a

great transformation in the way of thinking and performing, basically oriented to mercantilism and based,

at the same time, to the Adam Smith postulates, with the theorem “let-do it”, “let-pass it”. But in the past

century, the advances evolve much quicker. In the education context, the technology advances had complement

with the global capitalism notion, but for many authors’ this knowledge seems to decompose in

most harmful ways than the positive ones.

The globalization impact in education has been a worrying process, precisely by the fast way that it

changes. But the analysis goes beyond the realities that generates. The experiences in the most industrialized

countries show that the economical development and growing had been thanks, to the education.

However, when only a few power groups (political and economic) are the beneficiaries of the global

education, we can not be cheerful in the concept of a world designed in this scheme

With the creation of market blocks, free commerce and the “neoliberal” economic model, the globalization

has imposed and established rules, which only benefit a few persons. The economic power is

concentrated in the financial elite, represented by big multinational corporations, which has generated

inequity and poverty as never before.

Under this point of view, there’s a great concern for the fast growing of poverty, so the suggestion is

that globalization must tend to be a “globalized profit” and not only of wretchedness

Since capitalism was born, it reveals as a “process of wide proportions that go beyond geographical,

historical, cultural and social frontiers, which have influence cities, nations and nationalities”i. For this

reason, globalization, as a simultaneous, social and economic process, specially sways in the education

systems, and with that in the social, public and private life.

The important of the human values in education gets lost in globalization, because it only stimulates

the educational system by the economic point of view and there’s no other reference. The educational

relationships are guide only by the mayor power of insensible and irrational use and abuse of human

kind.

The critic to the actual education system is located, principally, in the social unconcern in the ignorance

of the social function as a generator, guidance and formatter of the human values

On the other hand, analysis that pretends to cover the concept of education in the globalize environment

must concede the primacy to persons, above things. Such study won’t obtain any results, when we

turn people into things.

The actual education must confront with success the misery, poverty and inequity problems, but overall,

it has necessarily to make a deep emphasis in human values, where it recognize person as an individual

and gain the harmonic and respectful integration of the bases of justice, solidarity and subsidiary. By

this way, education will be oriented in an upright humanist thought, which will be for the benefit of all

society, because it will make it stronger and lasting.