How does the democratization of education lead to national integration?

1. Opportunity to re-fashion an inherited educational system. An outmoded one,

according to many, as it favoured the furtherance of colonial rather than local
interests.
2. The social and economic disparity based on ethnicity, which was previously
reinforced through a colonial education system was in many ways narrowed
through these educational democratization processes.
3. Educational places, assistance, scholarships and special schemes were
made widely available to the Bumiputra.
4. With the scrapping of qualifying examinations at the standard six and Form Three
levels more and more people were also able to remain in school for a much
longer period. This is known as the democratization aspect of education, in which
the benefits of schooling were spread out among a larger population.
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Implication of globalization of education to the educators?
1. The effects of globalisation on education bring rapid developments in technology
and communications are foreseeing changes within learning systems across the
world as ideas, values and knowledge, changing the roles of students and
teachers, and producing a shift in society from industrialisation towards an
information-based society.
2. Teacher education in the globalized context has to be based on inquiry and
problem solving which is not confined to absolutes within their intra-cultural milieu
but which also concerns itself with inter-cultural diversity and likenesses.
3. The teacher today, because of the proliferation of knowledge and of instant
access to it, has to be a facilitator for accessing information and not necessarily
be seen as the sole source and giver of knowledge. A narrow single minded
source of knowledge aimed at giving all the knowledge that students need to
know and protecting them from the so called 'contamination of foreign cultures' is
not educationally sufficient in the globalized world.
4. A third element that must become part of our education system in this globalized
society is the necessity to provide opportunities for educators from different
cultures to meet interact and exchange ideas.
5. Learn how to work with other peoples who hold varied and sometimes
contradictory values that foster different cultures from their own. This
necessitates living with differences, letting go of some held values and adopting
and/or adapting to those held by others. This implies not only changing the way
they think but more importantly, changing the way they do things.
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