Globalization, Education, and Talent Essay

Suarez-Orozco and Qin-Hilliard view the phenomenon of globalization almost in the same manner. To them acceleration in movement of economic activities, trade, people, and ideas across countries is globalization. They also give their consent to the fact that the concept of globalization has grabbed the attention of today’s scholars and also caused great controversy among them regarding its pluses and minuses. However, according to them there are still many areas of this phenomenon that are unexplored. In this regard they provide the example of talent and the importance of education, an area that requires immediate concerns due to the fact that â€Å"accelerating transnational dynamics† of globalization are affecting education especially at pre- collegiate level . Present generation cannot go along the same style of education in which nations mechanically copy curricula from each other. The reason is simple. The different between today’s and past generations is that today the youth have the entire world as their playground in opposition to their grandparents who were confined in the ideologies of their towns and countries. It is essential to prepare our talent in a way that they steadfastly confront the forces of globalization that are already taxing our youth, families, and nations. Thus globalization is an accelerating complexity coming out of technology, media, changing climate of politics, migration, identities, and so on. Thus today is â€Å"a new stage of the history of education† in which the needs of people and nations have changed . There are a number of challenges that need to be covered. In this time of international competition and war of talent, the empowerment of talent is something that can be tackled by identifying the physical and cognitive changes of our present and coming generations. For this we need â€Å"digital skills†, an area new technologies can assist to come over. There is dire need to develop a network which carries with it increasingly complex skills so that participation in the globally digital network becomes a material reality. Context and action both must be focused in the global scenario to polish and boost up the talent for future. For digital skills there must be interaction between self-regulated skills and mutually regulated skills to achieve broader goals of globalization. This is important because the age has already witnessed a digital revolution that in only starting to become faster and more intense yet no one knows how rapidly changes would occur in the coming future. Then there is this â€Å"youth culture† in the waves of globalization that gives us a glimpse of what is happening to our youth in transnational communications between cultures, values, fashion, and so forth. Nike-clad, hyper-visible, or apathetically underground youth of today need extra attention so that their talent can be well utilized to confront global challenges. The author points out that examining this youth culture in details reveals the fact that in no branch of study, this culture has been duly studied for its real problems, issues and complexities. In reality, the â€Å"Issues of youth culture seep into studies of globalization by way of their attention to popular culture, media, and cultural change, but there is much less focus directly on youth per se†; moreover, there is, in particular, insufficient focus on how today’s youth think about globalization; henceforth, their perspective is not known. One reason for this neglect or gap is that generally youth are seen as part of cultures, nations, and traditions across the world and are taken with them. However, today this is not enough. Thus to grapple with the complexities present to our youth in globalization and make best use of their complex talent, it is important to seriously look at the picture through the lens of the youth so that challenges, opportunities, and complexities can be fairly streamlined into a positive current. Talent empowerment will come easy through understanding the issues of today’s youth and addressing them with rightly set measures such as education at par with the current demands .