Globalisation, Hegemony and Education Policies

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The purpose of this paper is to present an embryo of a heuristic framework for description of ideological shifts with regard to education. The paper makes an overview of some of the most common ideologies and their roots and localises them within the context of more profound societal paradigms. It also argues that ideological and policy changes are conditioned by the challenges from the globalised meta-ideology, which is hegemonic in that it determines the discourse and argues that education is first and foremost for making countries economically competitive and modern. In the second place comes education for the sake of human rights.

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Political Party Capitalist Society Direct Democracy Market Principle Ideological Dimension 
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  1. 1.Institute of International Education, Department of EducationUniversity of StockholmStockholmSweden

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