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Many people today acknowledge that we have entered a new era — an age dominated by genetic engineering, multinational corporations, the Internet, intercontinental travel, and instantaneous communication. They use the term globalization to describe the concomitant breakdown of traditional economie, cultural, and communicative barriers throughout the world. With globalization comes an increasing awareness of paradox: as the world becomes more united by trade and Communications networks, it is also becoming more fragmented. Some nations are breaking up; others are forming. New interpretations of history, tradition, and cultural identity are exacerbating existing tensions. New economic and political alliances and tensions are resulting in changing patterns of mobility and immigration, sometimes even dislocation. Increasingly, people are confronted with diversity, not only in the global community, but also locally. They are forced to develop new competencies in order to go beyond participation in their previously homogeneous groups, and to learn to live respectfully, justly, and peacefully together in a global environment. Education is often seen as key to the development of these competencies, in that it both creates appropriate skills and knowledge, and also provides a forum in which students experience, and learn to live with, the problems and opportunities of diversity.
How shall I talk of the sea to the frog, If it has never left its pond? How shall I talk of the frost to the bird of the summerland, If it has never left the land of its birth? How shall I talk of life with the sage, If he is prisoner of his doctrine? Chung Tsu, 4th Century BC (in Fantini, Arias-Galicia, Guay, 2000, p.1)
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Shields, C.M. (2002). Cross-Cultural Leadership and Communities of Difference: Thinking about Leading in Diverse Schools. In: Leithwood, K., et al. Second International Handbook of Educational Leadership and Administration. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0375-9_9
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