ABSTRACT
It will have become quite clear from the previous chapters that the interconnectedness of the whole world means that things initiated at the centre spread through the remainder of the globe. At the same time, there is a less powerful movement in the opposite direction, where the local seeks to retain its distinctiveness, resists the pressures from the centre, and so on. We have seen how the market competitiveness and efforts to improve profitability in the global core have been the cause of many changes in the nature and transmission of knowledge and also in the place of education and training in some people’s lives. The changes have affected all people in a wide variety of ways. Amongst the changes has been the nature of research itself and this brief chapter traces some of these changes, and it will have three sections: research and policy; research and learning; research and practice.
