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Title: (Re)Visioning the Centre : education reform and the 'ideal' citizen of the future
Related: Educational philosophy and theory, Vol. 39, Issue 2, p.197-215
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2007.00306.x
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Date: 2007
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 170200 Cognitive Sciences 220200 History and Philosophy of Specific Fields 130300 Specialist Studies in Education
Author/Creator: Graham, Linda J
Description: Discourses of public education reform, like that exemplified within the Queensland Government's future vision document, Queensland State Education-2010 (QSE-2010), position schooling as a panacea to pervasive social instability and a means to achieve a new consensus. However, in unravelling the many conflicting statements that conjoin to form education policy and inform related literature (Ball, 1993), it becomes clear that education reform discourse is polyvalent (Foucault, 1977). Alongside visionary statements that speak of public education as a vehicle for social justice are the (re)visionary or those reflecting neoliberal individualism and a conservative politics. In this paper, it is argued that the latter coagulate to form strategic discursive practices which work to (re)secure dominant relations of power. Further, discussion of the characteristics needed by the 'ideal' future citizen of Queensland reflect efforts to 'tame change through the making of the child' (Popkewitz, 2004, p. 201). The casualties of this (re)vision and the refusal to investigate the pathologies of 'traditional' schooling are the children who, for whatever reason, do not conform to the norm of the desired school child as an 'ideal' citizen-in-the-making and who become relegated to alternative educational settings.
Description: 19 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 170200 Cognitive Sciences
Subject Keyword: 220200 History and Philosophy of Specific Fields
Subject Keyword: 130300 Specialist Studies in Education
Subject Keyword: neoliberal reform
Subject Keyword: choice
Subject Keyword: governmentality
Subject Keyword: post-school pathways
Subject Keyword: exclusion
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Institute of Early Childhood

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/77579
Identifier: ISSN:0013-1857
Identifier: mq-rm-2009000759
Language: eng
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