The Challenges and Implications of Globalization For Undergraduate Pedagogy

Whether in the United States, India, China, or in Poland, today’s students in the developed and emerging world construct their identities in a globally interconnected world. It is a world that is increasingly flat (Friedman, 2005), rife with more opportunity than the one inherited by previous generations, but also with more anxiety – a “generalized or unspecified sense of disequilibrium” (Turner, 1988, p. 61, cited by Gudykunst and Nishida, 2001, p. 59).