Globalisation and Education Futures: Unsettled Liberation and Uncertain Times: Education and Globalisation Shaping Divergence

This book chapter argues that education perversion and global capitalism and neoliberalism that commodifies humanity not only undermine local power and culture in education, but it has also left many people experiencing the “darker side” and brutality of globalisation. Other related negatives of international prescribers and globalisation that will be highlighted in the chapter are the contradiction in which education’s empty “mind” to the reception of reality from the global North, cultural homogenization, and development as the intimate enemy.