Partnerships, the Social Pact, and Changing Systems of Reason in a Comparative Perspective

  • Thomas S. Popkewitz
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Abstract

Policies and research about school reforms embody salvation themes. The modern salvation themes of schooling are not religious in seeking a heaven in the-life-after. They are secular in offering the deliverance of the nation through the education of the child. Salvation themes of rescue, redemption, and progress are embodied in the worldwide institutionalization of schooling as the nation-state formed in the nineteenth century (Meyer et al., 1997). Contemporary school reforms are spoken about as insuring the future of democracy in the new world of, to use its planetspeak, “a global” and “knowledge-based” society.2 Partnerships in educational reforms are one such salvation theme. From different ideological positions, partnerships tell of collective progress through promoting civic participation through individual and group involvement in the local agencies. The stories of educational partnerships are tales of seeking a newly arrived consensus and harmony between the governed and the government.3

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Cultural Practice Lifelong Learner Educational Reform School Subject Charter School 
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