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Starbucks and Green Tea: Education in the Age of Globalization

Starbucks and Green Tea: Education in the Age of Globalization. Yong Zhao, Ph. D University Distinguished Professor Director, US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence College of Education Michigan State University zhaoyo@msu.edu http://zhao.educ.msu.edu.

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Starbucks and Green Tea: Education in the Age of Globalization

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  1. Starbucks and Green Tea: Education in the Age of Globalization Yong Zhao, Ph. D University Distinguished Professor Director, US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence College of Education Michigan State University zhaoyo@msu.edu http://zhao.educ.msu.edu

  2. In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. - Mark Twain

  3. Trade Winds

  4. Forms of Globalization McDonaldization and Starbucks in the Forbidden City: Global Consumerism Madagascar and Jackie Chan: Pop Cosmopolitanism Microsoft and Toyota: Multiple Citizenships Bin Laden and SARS: Local Elephants in the Global Bedroom Nintendo and Yahoo Messenger: Virtuality and Reality al jazeera and Google News: Crossfire in the Global Media Chinese Shoes and Indian Doctors: Neo-colonialism and Re-division of Labor Out-of-Africa 3 and Out-of-Asia 2: Human Migration and the Re-mixing of Races and Cultures

  5. Migratory Patterns

  6. New Wave of Surfers “We're now entering what I think is a fundamental paradigm shift. A truly disruptive, Gutenberg-printing-press-like paradigm shift, and nobody's told the kids.” – Thomas Friedman

  7. Patents Pending

  8. Each generation of Americans has outstripped its parents in education, in literacy, and in economic attainment. For the first time in the history of our country, the educational skills of one generation will not surpass, will not equal, will not even approach, those of their parents.– Paul Cooperman, A Nation at Risk

  9. Public Views of the U.S. in Western Countries

  10. Geography as a measure

  11. Global Conversation

  12. “Public education does not serve a public. It creates a public” -- Neil Postman. The flattened world and the virtual world require a new public, a public with clear understandings of other cultures, other people, other languages, and other tools. Our schools need to act to provide an education that will prepare them for these new worlds.

  13. Risk-taking and Back to the Basics: Driving Forces of Education Reform • Why Asians Cannot think: Strengths and Weaknesses of East Asian Education • Knowledge-centered • Centralized • Discipline-based • Testing-oriented • Why Johnny Cannot Add: Strengths and Weaknesses of American Education • Child-centered • Decentralized • Activity-based • Process-oriented

  14. Citizenship in Three Worlds and the Re-engineering of Schools: Tasks, Tools, and Talking Points • Citizenship in 3 Worlds • Local • Global • Virtual • Re-schooling • What to teach: 21st Century Skills • Who is to teach: Virtual Schools and (Im)Exporting of Teachers • Who is to pay: Brain Drain and Brain Gain • Who is to control: School Boards vs. UNESCO

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