Educating the national citizen in neoliberal times

From the Multicultural Self to the Strategic Cosmopolitan

Bibliographic Data

ID5774767
AuthorsKatharyne Mitchell (0000-0001-9238-7318, University of Washington, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume28
Issue4
Pages387-403
Publication date2003-11-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.0020-2754.2003.00100.x
OpenAlexW1969930931
LanguageEN
Citations received229
References cited53

The paper is a broad, comparative investigation of shifts in the educational rhetoric and policy of three countries over the past two decades. Using England, Canada and the United States as case studies, I argue that the spirit of multiculturalism in education has shifted from a concern with the formation of tolerant and democratic national citizens who can work with and through difference, to a more strategic use of diversity for competitive advantage in the global marketplace. This shift is directly linked with and helps to facilitate the entrenchment of neoliberalism as it supports a privatization agenda, reduces the costs of social reproduction for the government, and aids in the constitution of subjects oriented to individual survival and/or success in the global economy

Cultural pluralism · Neoliberalism (international relations · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Religious Education and Schools

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