DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING COMPETENCY-BASED CURRICULUM: Student-Centered Education

According to the conducted research by the prestigious publication New York Times, the term globalization was used for the first time in 1944 and then it would appear in a Webster Dictionary. (Onisoru, 2007, p. 122) But the one who contributed to its mainstreaming has been Professor Thomas Levitt, when he published in June 1983 in the specialized magazine of the Harvard Business School University, with the article entitled Globalization of Markets. (Negrut, 2010)

Like other central concepts in the political science vocabulary, such as democracy, power or national self-determination, the term globalization remains extremely controversial, lacking a precise definition. (Apahideanu, 2006, p. 303)

In the most general terms, “Globalization represents the process by which the geographic distance becomes a less and less important factor in the establishment and development of the cross-border economic relations of political and social – cultural nature.” (Brad, 2001, p. 6)