Globalisation, Education Policy, and Change: Globalizations, Meta-ideological Hegemony and Challenges in Education

This chapter offers a critical analysis of the dominant paradigms and ideologies and their positions along selected dimensions. The globalised meta-ideology was assumed to define and influence changes in education and policy reforms, both locally and globally, but other reasons for or causes of the changes in education policy might be an object of future, in-depth, research. In the past years populism has come to challenge the prevailing hegemony. Despite frequent incompatibilities with local economic structures and cultural patterns, the meta-ideology and its paradigmatic features described above are taken for granted by politicians and policymakers around the world. The educational features that have been globalized are ostensibly biased towards academic achievement, standards, cognition, and purposive rationality.