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Between Global Demise and National Complacent Hegemony

Multiculturalism and Multicultural Education in a Moment of Danger

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Precarious International Multicultural Education

Part of the book series: Transgressions ((TRANS,volume 84))

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It used to be the case that we took as common sense, as virtually natural, what Ulrich Beck and Natan Sznaider (2006) have labeled and criticized as “methodological nationalism;” a conceptual framework which takes for granted the division of the world into nation-states which are in turn taken as units for examination and if necessary, comparison. In education, therefore, we design, implement and evaluate the national curriculum of Ghana and in comparative education we compare the curricula of Indonesia and Ghana. Even when we think of smaller units (the provincial or state curriculum, the school district administration, the culture of the individual school and even the pedagogy in a particular classroom) we still have the national frame as natural backdrop. So for example in Canada where education is organized provincially we might consider the secondary curriculum of British Columbia and in Australia where education is organized by state, we might consider the secondary curriculum of New South Wales but in both cases we would have the national context as framing background.

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Wright, H.K. (2012). Between Global Demise and National Complacent Hegemony. In: Wright, H.K., Singh, M., Race, R. (eds) Precarious International Multicultural Education. Transgressions, vol 84. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-894-0_6

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