Localizing globalization and globalizing localization: a compromised eastern approach to learning in higher education

Abstract

ELLTA Submissions<br><br>Topics: Education, Learning in/by Organizations, Globalizations<br><br>Keywords: university teaching and learning, Localizing globalization and globalizing localization<br><br>Localizing globalization and globalizing localization: a compromised eastern approach to learning in higher education<br><br>Bakhtiar Shabani Varaki<br><br>Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, Islamic Republic of; bshabani@ferdowsi.um.ac.ir bshabani{at}ferdowsi.um.ac ir <br><br>This paper focuses on relationship and also challenges between globalization and localization in university teaching and learning. All the given contradictions between indigenous particularities and global universality and also debates between the proponents and opponents of globalization will be examined in terms of eastern approach, in particular Iranian culture. Accordingly, globalization defines as humanization and so it is indicated how well some issues in learning could be solved by considering the dialectic process of localization and globalization. Underpinning Iranian cultural resources, it is also explained that not only globalization is never antithetical to localization, but also it could be considered as a complementary of localization and vice versa. Due to this dynamics dialectic socio-cultural process, universities in the supper complex increasingly globalized world are responsible for and also able to providing an opportunity for individuals with awareness back to their roots and to enable them to determine their position in the world and respect other cultures. I call this as a real option to localizing globalization and globalizing localization.