Multicultural Education--Good for Business but Not for the State? The IB Curriculum and Global Capitalism

Autor/in	Resnik, Julia
Titel	Multicultural Education--Good for Business but Not for the State? The IB Curriculum and Global Capitalism
Quelle	In: British Journal of Educational Studies, 57 (2009) 3, S.217-244 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-1005
Schlagwörter	Multicultural Education; International Schools; Secondary Schools; Cultural Pluralism; Corporations; Public Education; Educational Policy; Politics of Education; College Curriculum; Global Approach; Equal Education; Access to Education; Economic Factors; Business Administration; Advanced Placement Programs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Multikulturelle Erziehung; International school; Internationale Schule; Sekundarschule; Kulturpluralismus; Unternehmen; Öffentliche Erziehung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Educational policy; Globales Denken; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Ökonomischer Faktor; Business economics; Betriebswirtschaft
Abstract	In the 1970s and the 1980s, multicultural education spread in many countries. However, in the mid-1980s the golden age of multiculturalism came to an end. Neo-conservative political forces attacked multicultural policies and progressively a neo-liberal discourse pervaded economic and social policies, also affecting national education systems. In contrast, multicultural approaches have emerged with tremendous vigour in the field of business management. Juxtaposing cognitive, emotional and socio-communicative multiculturalism found in organisational studies onto multiculturalism in the International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum indicates whether multiculturalism in international schools aims to respond to the needs of global capitalism. The findings show that emotional, cognitive and socio-communicative multiculturalism are seen as essential traits for good performance in transnational corporations, and they are strongly encouraged in the IB curriculum. The relevance of multicultural skills in global management alongside the decay of multiculturalism in public education systems entails a growing educational disparity between lower class and higher class children. A new educational structure in which two differentiated systems--a national system and an international system--emerges and redefines the terms of inequality of opportunities. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10