On the Concept of Glocality from the Perspective of School Principals in Israel

• In Event: 156 - Section on Global and Transnational Sociology Refereed Roundtable Session and Business Meeting
  In Refereed Roundtable 60min: Table 04. Education, Citizenship, and Rights

Abstract

Recent discussions of glocalization call for acknowledging the role of agents of glocalization. By recording the role perception of school principals, who are increasingly evaluated by global standards and yet is acutely responsive to community-level capacity, in this work we propose a novel outlook onto glocality: we (1) redefine glocality as a matter of orientation and (2) extract a typology of the practice of glocalization. First, based on their own understanding of what accounts for “global” and for “local,” we show that while all school principals report that their work requires the integration of global and local components of education, they differ in their orientation. Second, we show that such orientation is associated with the type of glocality: school principals with a strong orientation towards the global also express a sense of hybrid glocality, whereas school principals with a strong orientation towards the local also express a sense strategic glocality.

Authors

• Ravit Mizrahi-Shtelman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Gili S. Drori, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem