Globalisation, Education, Policy, and Curricula Issues: Higher Education Adapts to Globalization: Examples from Canada

This chapter examines how globalization and neo-liberalism have changed the traditional focus of higher education in teaching humanities. Examples are drawn from the Canadian higher education system and changes experienced particularly over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, in teaching humanities. Of concern are such factors as how education has become a utilitarian endeavour, troubling effects of internationalization in universities, changes in funding practices for post-secondary education, how the market has changed the focus of research, and semantic indications that reflect how neo-liberalism pervades the policies of higher education institutions today.