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Globalization is a phenomenon of the postmodern era which accommodates the shrinking of the world into a small functional community. As a result of this, geographical distance and socio-cultural divergence are no longer constraints to aggregating the entire human race into one global family. The term is used to describe transnational relationships, engagements, cooperation and the sharing of human, material and ideological resources across regions. Discourse on the subject has become so relevant across previously unrelated fields that their definitions have now converged on a consensus theoretical concept understood as “universal homogeneity.” The primary material, Helon Habila’s novel, Measuring Time is studied in the context of globalization and hybridity of cultures. The paper asserts that no human community should be isolated from the dynamic engagements of the wider society. This paper avers that globalization should not be advanced as an imposition of foreign cultural values; rather it should be seen as a practice that reflects mutually beneficial contact amongst people of divergent cultures. In the current dispensation, the cultural consumption and uncritical assimilation of Western values by African colonized people do not reflect the underlying objective of Globalization. This paper projected the need for a revision of the concept and to promote a symbiosis of unions where ideological, material and human capital flow across cultures in such a manner that all the actors in the ‘shrinking’ borderless world are mutual beneficiaries.Key words: Globalisation, African, Culture, Hybridity, Post-Colonialism

This paper attempts to elaborate current existence of Islamic Communication curriculum, particularly Dakwah Jurnalism as one of the Islamic communication education pillars, either on state or private Islamic universities in Indonesia. Departing from an explanation of empirical phenomenon of the technological revolution and globalization of communication that broughtsignificant impacts on the communicationindustry and social-global behavior, this paper wants to criticize backwardness content of DakwahJournalism curriculum that failed to adopt both dynamics as genial formulation to form new scholar competency of Islamic Communications in modern world. The curriculum focus for journalism ethical values only shows another fact that there is a weakness on scientific exploration of the journalism science in Islamic tradition. This paper will be concluded with myanalysis for the differences of vision and mission addressed by Islamic Communication Departments (KPI) in PTAI that aggravate above conditions. This problem represents only one example of the complexity of the problems in the PTAI teaching system amidst of migration policy from IAIN into State Islamic University(UIN). To establish competitive graduates with holistic competency, it is necessary for PTAI managers to develop new framework, vision, mission and curriculum content at large. The initiatives can be started by changing Dakwah Journalism curriculum.

As Indonesia strives to overcome its position as a periphery nation, its populations are faced with increasing challenges to traditional identity and morality. With economic development comes a great exposure to global consumer culture. This paper examines how traditionalist Muslims in Java, Indonesia, are facing the perceived impact of globalization through educational efforts and the re-invention of tradition. A key institution in this process is the Islamic boarding school called pesantren. Pesantren curriculum has become a focal point in the strategy of the traditionalist community to encounter globalization. By shaping curriculum, pesantren leaders are trying to mold future generations of Indonesian leaders and citizens. The goal is to create a society that is fully modern, fully globalized, fully Indonesian, and fully Islamic, one student at a time. In this process, both modernity and tradition are re-invented in such a way that one cannot exist without the other.

The current context of crisis, change and globalization in which we live is also characterized by a real crisis within the field of ethics; this explains why we can observe an increasing social demand that requires from the educational institutions and teachers to deal with the moral training of students. Uncertainty and plurality could be the two main words that define the current situation of values in the world, and this makes very difficult to lay down which values should direct the training of a citizen-to-be. This paper pro- vides a new approach to the moral dimension in edu- cation based on the distinction between ethics as struc- ture and ethics as contents and on the conviction that it is necessary to build a change not only within the ethical approach to education, but also within the approach to ethical education.