ABSTRACT
Globalization as an empirical phenomenon involves various practices-some of which are discursive-and states of affairs. An eccentric cosmopolitanism in a globalized world is a cosmopolitanism contained within a current situation that might demarcate the ideal's reach and scope and dictate its priorities. Globalization is an empirical phenomenon that has been felt as a structural transformation of the world economic system operating in a complex dialectic with time and space compression effected by advances in technology and communication. Cultural globalization often describes a homogenization of taste regarding fashion, mass culture, music, films, television, and so forth. It denotes the increased opportunities for travel, for cross-cultural encounters and contacts, and, through them, for enrichment of cultures and for a plurality of cultural experiences and choices. Overall, education seems to be unsure of its direction regarding globalization, and often attributed to the tensions between the global and the local and unity and difference that mark globalist discourse.
