Globalisation and the Challenges for Educational Leadership in Libyan Context

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

1.1 Introduction1

1.2 Background of the Study2

1.3 Conceptual and Theoretical Framework5

1.4 Affects of Globalisation on Education7

1.4.1 Globalization and Education8

1.5 Affects of Economic Globalisation, Political Globalisation, Technological Globalisation and Cultural Globalisation on Educational System Worldwide and In Libya Context10

1.5.1 Economic and Political Globalisation and Education10

1.5.2 Cultural Globalisation and Education12

1.5.3 Technological Globalisation and Education13

1.5.3.1 Variety of Methods14

1.5.3.2 Facilitate the Treatment of Certain Information14

1.5.3.3 Facilitate Student Autonomy15

1.5.3.4 Optimize Individual Work15

1.5.3.5 Encourage and Facilitate Collaborative Work15

1.5.3.6 Class Open To New Worlds16

1.5.4 Affects of Globalisation on Educational System in Libya16

1.5.4.1 Educational Policy in Libya19

1.6 Research Aims and Objectives20

1.7 Aims - How to Achieve21

1.8 Structure of Dissertation21

1.9 Summary22

REFERENCES23

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1 Introduction

This research work is focusing on the impact of globalization and the challenges for educational leadership in Libyan framework. The benefits brought by globalization are efficiency, economies of scale, operational flexibility, cross subsidization, strategic, diversified macroeconomic and operational risks, broad learning opportunities, reputation and innovations and trends of technological influence in education systems. The challenges of globalization are transfer of jobs from developed to developing nations, decrease in environmental integrity, high chances in the occurrence of civil war and spread of materialistic lifestyle. The principal rationale adopted by organizations and educational institutes is to develop a global strategy is to reduce barriers of trade for the enrichment of all societies (Yongxiu, 2010, Pp. 171-175). Globalization involves the process of identification of local resources which would support the various cultures. Localization refers to the customization of application for different localities. It is the actual process where resources are translated to a particular culture. Whereas an emphasis on the educational leadership and the socio-historical nature of education and the need to express the time in education in the life of a people. The methods, which are appropriate, are conditioned by the circumstances in which they are expressed, hence the harmfulness of the copy of theories, methods and procedures that are outside the culture, history and the concrete reality of a people.

The educational process is developed as a system to influence all members of that society, involving training in these, of all cognitive, affective and volitional personality, i.e. the formation of their thoughts, feelings, skills, abilities, interests, values, beliefs, etc., consistent with the training demands imposed by the socio-historical context. This is a comprehensive process that takes place in the institution, the family, political organizations and mass media, or society as a whole. The institution, school, belongs the leading role of the Education of new generations and is the center of its execution. This must be a graduate who meets certain qualities that allow them to face a set of situations, which are modified by the action of the graduate, which will be based on science or branch of knowledge that has dominated the educational process, whose main object is the man for the job in a social context, so it should be a process and scientific work, which will succeed in obtaining a graduate independent and ...