Examining the Relationship between Global Competence, and Multiculturalism and Polyculturalism of Selected Students in PNU-Manila

Abstract

Rapid changes in the global world have been made evident during the past decades. There are major advancements in communication, technology, and in a way of people live in. People nowadays become global despite the territorial boundaries, people across the globe still manage to communicate and update each other. To adapt with the changes happening in the 21st century, an individual must have necessary knowledge, skill, and attitude; the global competence. More so, there is also a need for every individual to integrate itself with the global community. Hence, intergroup ideologies such as multiculturalism and polyculturalism are deemed with great significance. This study focuses on examining the relationship of global competence to the selected students in Philippine Normal University –Manila, if they manifest multiculturalism and polyculturalism ideas. College undergraduate students belong to the age range of the youth, a generation which is known for benefiting the fruits of world advancement. Other countries in the world already embedded global competence in the curriculum. The researchers attempt to examine the global competence of students to know how they develop it and in what situations they manifest it. Their response to different questions with regards to global, multiculturalism and polyculturalism will give an outlook of characteristics of a global student.