Globalising the Young in the Age of Desire: Some Educational Policy Issues 1 (original) (raw)

Abstract

In discussing contemporary construcutions of the young in the so called developed countries of the West, this paper draws particularly from theories of cultural globalisation. It outlines and compares two competing but intersecting constructions of childhood. The paper compares the competing resources for youthful identity building offered by the corporate curriculum of consumer-media culture and that of schooling in corporatised education systems. It focuses particularly on questions of generation, pleasure and agency. In so doing it will explain the difficulties education policy faces in gaining the consent of the young in the age of desire and will point to the need for policy to help teachers to enchant the classroom. It will then identify several lessons that education policy makers might learn from their those who develop the 'corporate curriculum'. At the same time it will explain the paradoxes for policies that arise should such lessons be learnt. The paper draws f...

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