The globalization and the process of transnationalization of educational policies

Abstract

The author presents, in this article, the influence of the globalization’s nets in the process of construction of educational policies from the confrontation between the interpretativetheoretical conceptions developed by John Meyer – Education World-Wide Common Culture (CEMC) - and by Roger Dale –Globally Structured Educational Agenda. In the process of growing internationalization of a semiperipheric country like Portugal, the author analyses the process of construction and reconfiguration of the educational policies and the influence in terms of legitimation and mandate of international organizations of tendency predominantly regulatory feature as OECD and European Union. To the role of OECD in the transnationalization of educational field, from the decade of 1960, the author adds the analysis of the process of europeization of the educational current policies in the context of the European Community/ European Union, from the decade of 1980.