Education in the world-wide society: globalization as a challenge to pedagogy

Abstract

Through the globalization process, education bases upon world society. It becomes evident through the fonnal institutionalization, the curriculum, the educational semantics and the education monitoring. Together with the ancoragem of the educational processes to the world society, several inequalities arise in relation to the public funding, schooling rates, literacy and school quality. According to this circumstances, the pedagogical acting and the educational politics must be orientated towards the following tasks: professional education, education for human rights, education for peace, intercultural education.