Globalization and Cross-Cultural Ideological and Political Education: Strategies for Promoting Core Value Consensus Among Diverse Student Populations

As our world has become more and more globalised, educational spaces have become amalgamations of different cultures, where different ways of life are the norm rather than the exception. This paper is concerned with the effect of globalisation and cross-cultural ideological and political education. It focuses on what happens when educators are faced with the challenge of teaching core values to a diverse group of students with very different cultural backgrounds. It addresses this problem through a discussion of cultural resistance, the risk of cultural misinterpretations, as well as the need to strike a balance between inclusivity and exclusivity in shared understanding of core values. Furthermore, it presents some potential solutions to this problem, such as culturally responsive curriculum design, the role of educational professionals in acting as cultural mediators and the deployment of co-learning rooms. The study concludes by demonstrating how achieving the right balance between these forms of solutions in an educational setting can be determined quantitatively and qualitatively. This study contributes to the field of cross-cultural education and provides some practical solutions for educators in a globalised world.