Abstract
The author discusses the effects of globalisation on schools, learning and teaching arrangements as well as the future role of education within networked, borderless living spaces. In doing so, he explores the question of what role schools, as traditionally place-based institutions, can play in preparing students for a global labour market with its uncertainties. First, he describes general tendencies of individualisation and flexibilisation of working conditions in order to derive consequences for childhood (parents' time as a scarce resource, commercialisation). In a second step, he illustrates the effects of the new media internet and computer on learning (unboundedness in terms of place, time, and the associated unreliability of sources). In a final step, he characterises the consequences of globalisation for education and schools (international standards in the three large economic areas, the necessity of imparting knowledge to structure and evaluate information).
