The Study of the Consequences and Mechanisms of Globalization on Higher Education Curriculum
Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planningمحمد آتشک 1 , رضا نوروززاده 2 , محمد قهرمانی 3 , محمود ابوالقاسمی 4 , مقصود فراستخواه 5
1 - 1گروه برنامه ریزی علم و فناوری امور آمایش و توسعه منطقه‌ای معاونت برنامه ریزی و نظارت راهبردی رئیس جمهور، تهران، ایران
2 - 2و 5 عضو هیأت علمی مؤسسه پژوهش و برنامه ریزی آموزش عالی، وزارت علوم، تحقیقات و فناوری، تهران، ایران
3 - عضو هیأت علمی گروه علوم تربیتی و روان‌شناسی، دانشگاه شهید بهشتی، تهران، ایران
4 - عضو هیأت علمی گروه علوم تربیتی و روان‌شناسی، دانشگاه شهید بهشتی، تهران، ایران
5 - 2و 5 عضو هیأت علمی مؤسسه پژوهش و برنامه ریزی آموزش عالی، وزارت علوم، تحقیقات و فناوری، تهران، ایران
Keywords: Globalization, Curriculum, Higher Education,
Abstract :
This article aims to study the consequences and mechanisms of globalization on the higher education curriculum. Documentary studies show that the most important consequences of globalization on the higher education curriculum are development in science and technology, changes in labor market and employment, social inequalities, promotion of democracy and human rights, increase in intercultural communication, review of moral and ethical values and education for the time of uncertainty. Furthermore, the analysis of the single survey t-test, which has been done through enquiries prepared by the researcher, was answered by 37 experts in higher education curriculum. It showed that in order to deal with these consequences, the following points should be considered in preparing the higher education curriculum including putting more emphasis on learning English language, to increase one’s knowledge about the culture, customs and traditions of other nations, to know and appreciate the influential people of science in international scope, to increase one's life skills to be able to coexist with other races from different countries, to expand one’s knowledge about scientific achievements and innovations,to necessitate the inclusion of democracy and human rights in the curriculum, to produce and provide the virtual contents, to change the process of education from teaching to learning, from individual to group training, from increase in knowledge to increase in skill,from behavioral learning to constructional one and from traditional to virtual.