Supporting Material

Nationalism: The Modern Past

George Orwell, 1984
Gellner on the Meaning of Nation
Anderson on the Nation as ‘Imaged Community’
John Dewey on the Assimilating Role of Schools
Eleanor Roosevelt on Learning To Be a Citizen

Neoliberalism: More Recent Times

Adam Smith’s ‘Invisible Hand’
Herbert Spencer on the Survival of the Fittest
Ronald Reagan on Small Government
Margaret Thatcher: There’s No Such Thing As Society
Deng Xiaoping: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism

McLaren on life in Schools
Our Multicultural Society

Civic Pluralism: New Learning

Habermas on Globalisation and Governance
Handy on Federalism and Subsidiarity
Hilton and Barnett on Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism
Charles Taylor on the Politics of Multiculturalism
The Charter of Public Service in a Culturally Diverse Society, Australian Government
New Learning is Noisy
Schooling in the World’s Best Muslim Country

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