ABSTRACT
Aiming at contributing to the worldwide discussion of conceptualization, multiple functions, and management of national education in an era of globalization, this chapter proposes a new framework for paradigm shift in policy analysis, practical implementation, and research. The controversies in national education stem from different assumptions and perspectives used in interpreting its nature and functions. Most perspectives seem too confining in globalization. This chapter urges a shift from the traditional paradigm towards a broad-based national education paradigm. National education nowadays should be understood against a globalized context, in which there are multiple, complex, and dynamic developments at play including technological, economic, social, political, cultural, and learning developments of not only individuals and local communities within the nation but also the global world beyond the nation. In brief, broad-based national education serves multiple functions at multiple levels.
