Globalization, Localization, Education and Technology

Sustainable, Development, Education and Globalization

Localization, Globalization, and Traveling Chinese Culture

In their article "Localization, Globalization, and Traveling Chinese Culture" Chengjun Wang and Junhong Ma discuss three channels of the "traveling" of Chinese culture to the outside world. Focusing on the situation of bilingualism (i.e., Chinese and English) and the need of spreading Chinese literature and culture especially in the English-speaking world, Wang and Ma argue for the practice of ...

Localization and globalization in conscious vision.

The primate visual brain consists of many separate, functionally specialized processing systems, each consisting of several apparently hierarchical stages or nodes. The evidence reviewed here leads me to speculate (a) that the processing systems are autonomous with respect to one another, (b) that activity at each node reaches a perceptual end point at a different time, resulting in a perceptua...

The Concepts of Globalization and Localization

This paper approaches translation from a relatively broad perspective, considering translation as a kind of social practice in response to the expanding scope of translation. Translation is considered as one of the means, among other communicative activities, to shape, reflect and negotiate with the social context; that is, the social context interacts with translation activities. With the rapi...

Human Capital Response to Globalization: Education and Information Technology in India

Recent studies show that trade liberalization increases skilled wage premiums in developing countries. This result suggests globalization bene…ts skilled workers more than unskilled workers, increasing inequality. However, if human capital investment responds to new global opportunities, this e¤ect may be mitigated. I study how the impact of globalization varies across Indian districts with di¤...