CHALLENGES FOR EDUCATION - FROM GLOBALIZATION TO DEGLOBALIZATION
CHALLENGES FOR EDUCATION - FROM GLOBALIZATION TO DEGLOBALIZATION

Summary/Abstract: What is the meaning of education today? Which are the appropriated criteria to measure the best school quality? Or, better said, to measure the quality of educational services of a school? The best school could be defined only by students’ results or we have to also consider students’ progress due to quality classes, to an adequate educational environment, to the leading of well trained teachers, able to adapt to their student needs and school’s conditions or educational system requests? Lately we are preoccupied about a question: what is really happening in educational field today, could classify the best schools considering that the students’ results on school contests / national evaluations / selection contests represent the unique criteria for school evaluation / classification? Is it possible that besides quality educational services offered by school other factors to justify students’ results (like students’ selection based on their competences and potential, financial support for school – due to the donations of parents and their investments in particular meditations / classes for their kids, or to school management / staff cooperation with local community etc.)? And, in this context, what pressure are putting parents on school and schools on parents? In globalization era, open boards, migration between countries, an extended labour market beyond borders, and opportunities for studying abroad are causes and consequences for nowadays educational environment’s changes. So, our paper proposes a reflection on education changes in contemporary society, society which oscillates between globalization and deglobalization and bears the consequences of that (for example, family members’ migration and, as a consequence, the change of psychological and relational profile of children and teens).

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