Educational Requirements to Meet the Challenges of Cultural Globalization

Abstract

The current study aimed to explore the challenges of cultural globalization and the educational requirements to confront them through theoretical literature and previous studies using the descriptive approach. The study showed the multiple challenges of cultural globalization, the most prominent of which are: the challenge of intellectual extremism and the spread of a culture of violence, the imbalance in the societal values, the challenge of the threat to the cultural privacy of societies, and the dominance of consumption tendencies, the different consumption patterns, and the challenge of the information revolution without any controls. The study revealed many educational requirements to confront these challenges, including: the requirement to develop future education according to the four main dimensions: the horizontal dimension, which is represented by the principle of “education for all,” and the vertical dimension, which is represented by the principle of “Lifelong learning, the depth dimension of the educational process, and the social-cultural dimension by emphasizing the uniqueness and cultural subjectivity of societies.