Date: 2010
Type: Working Paper
Globalization Impact on Education in Egypt
Working Paper, EUI RSCAS, 2010/92, Mediterranean Programme Series
DIANA, Chiara, Globalization Impact on Education in Egypt, EUI RSCAS, 2010/92, Mediterranean Programme Series - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/15234
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The Education affair in Egypt is a Janus-faced case considered both as ‘local’ and ‘global’. There are
local factors specific to this country - the Islamization of the Egyptian society’s moeurs - as well as
elements of global and international nature, that insert the Egyptian education case in the larger
analytical framework of Globalization.
After highlighting how Egypt got involved in the global system by the application of new economic
and neoliberal policies, the paper will focus on the dilemma of the Education affair, on islamized
attitudes of the educational staff and on new educational policies aimed at contrasting with the rise of
Islamization of all public education system. By this, two opposing forces are being in action in Egypt
today: on the one hand, a ‘local’ inner force which pushes a part of society toward a radicalization of
religious references and on the other hand, a ‘global’ international force which supports the Egyptian
government to enforce laws, projects, programmes enabling to guarantee an apparent and precarious
balance in the country.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/15234
ISSN: 1028-3625
Series/Number: EUI RSCAS; 2010/92; Mediterranean Programme Series
Keyword(s): Egypt Education Globalization Religion Islamization
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(Product of workshop No. 1 at the 11th MRM 2010)