ABSTRACT
This chapter develops a conceptual framework for understanding the relationship between globalisation and education in low income, postcolonial countries. There has been much written in this journal and in the broader educational literature in recent years about globalisation and education. In his recent editorial for Comparative Education, for example, Ball (1998) made use of globalisation theory to analyse contemporary, international education policy whilst in the same issue Jones (1998) used it to discuss the democratic prospects for world education. Within the broader educational literature globalisation theory has been used to explain a range of diverse and complex phenomena and has assumed a central position within the comparative and international education canon.
