Part IV - The Multi-citizen 1990–
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Summary
‘Since these things have been made, they can be unmade, as long as we know how it was that they were made.’
Michel Foucault, Politics, philosophy, culture, edited by Lawrence D. Kritzman, Routledge, New York, 1988, p. 37.Micro-economic reform and the expansion of education brought not rising prosperity but the severe recession of the early 1990s. This weakened support for the dominant economic policies, and new issues began to come on to the agenda: national identity, Asianisation, migration and multiculturalism; native title and reconciliation with indigenous people; citizenship and civics education. The growing recognition of difference and diversity created tensions, especially after the election of the Liberal and National parties in 1996, and brought new problems and possibilities to education.
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- Educating AustraliaGovernment, Economy and Citizen since 1960, pp. 243 - 244Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997
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