An Indigenous Curriculum Research on the Implication of Roland Robertson's “Glocalization”

• Main Authors: Huang Jing Jhong, 黃敬忠
• Other Authors: 莊明貞
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58905239031199242735

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 課程與教學研究所 === 94 === An Indigenous Curriculum Research on the Implication of Roland Robertson's “Glocalization” Abstract The motivation of this research is actuated by the researcher’s recognition of globalization and localization on the curriculum field. The aim of this research is to inquire the content of “Glocalization” suggested by Roland Robertson, and further to study it’s implication on indigenous curriculum research. Whereas the mentioned aim, this research is summarized as follows: 1. An introduction of Robertson’s life, experience and the academic development of globalization discourse. According to Robertson’s different thoughts and research themes, the researcher distinguished his academic development into three stages. 2. An analysis and inquiry regarded Robertson’s Globalization discourse. Also, in order to review the specialty of his Globalization discourse, the researcher presented a comparison and comment of Robertson’s discourse to another contemporary well-known scholar, Anthony Giddens. 3. A further inquiry and comment was on Robertson’s Glocalization. The researcher suggested that the content of Glocalization is consisted of six core concepts. 4. An exposition regarded the implication of Robertson’s Glocalization on indigenous curriculum research. The implication was expounded in three aspects—the curriculum concepts, curriculum theory studies, and curriculum practice studies, and they are summarized as follows: a) The curriculum is being understood as the text of “Glocalization”, it is to be understood through the six core concepts. b) In the aspect of “indigenous curriculum theory studies”, the “Glocalization” of curriculum theory studies is meant as the of mutual dialectic process between the globalized curriculum theory studies and the localized curriculum theory studies. c) In the aspect of “indigenous curriculum research issue”, it suggested two points. One is curriculum researcher should take notice of local issues, use social problem as the research topics. The other is only when the peculiarity of locality is considered into the global curriculum research issue, can the indigenous curriculum knowledge be enriched and local curriculum problems be effectively solved. Keywords：Roland Robertson, Glocalization, curriculum research, globalization, localization