ABSTRACT
Globalization of education refers to the worldwide discussions, processes, and institutions affecting local educational practices and policies. The key in the previous statement is the word “worldwide.” This means that events are happening on a global scale that affect national school systems. The image is that of global educational policies and practices existing in a superstructure above national and local schools. Nothing is static in this image. There is a constant dynamic of interaction: global ideas about school practices interact with local school systems while, through mutual interaction, both the local and the global are changed. In other the words, this global superstructure is constantly changing. Nations continue to independently control their school systems while being infl uenced by this superstructure of global education processes. Today, many nations choose to adopt policies from this global superstructure in order to compete in the global economy.
