ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the issues by analyzing the differences between global educational ideologies. It considers Huntington's prediction that the world will be plagued by increasing clashes between civilizations by exploring the issues of global languages, and religious and cultural differences. Neoliberalism, and human rights and environmental education are stressing new forms non-nationalistic forms of patriotism and citizenship. The intercultural and de-ethnicized use of English and Spanish occurred, according to Huntington, after the collapse of European colonial empires. The United States aided England by including teaching English in the concept of the country's manifest destiny to spread democracy and Protestantism. Confucianism, the educational foundation of Sinic civilization, rejects the Western concept of economic individualism for belief in the shared responsibility of humans to protect each other. The global civil society with its web of NGOs will probably continue to grow and extend its influence over school systems and act as a countervailing force to multinational corporations.
