TY - JOUR
T1 - Encountering friction between liberal and neoliberal discourses of citizenship
T2 - A non-governmental organization’s entrepreneurship education in Tanzania
AU - DeJaeghere, Joan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2014.
PY - 2014/11/1
Y1 - 2014/11/1
N2 - Educating for citizenship is increasingly situated within the tension of ensuring social, political, and civil rights while also promoting participation in the global market. The literature and practice on educating for citizenship often assumes a liberal perspective with attention to political and civil rights. A growing body of literature shows how neoliberal ideas and values of individual responsibility, empowerment, and participation in the market economy are increasingly influencing education for citizenship. This article draws on data from a non-governmental organization’s entrepreneurship education program in Tanzania that aims to foster both rights and skills development for employment in a global market. Using Tsing’s idea of friction, I uncover the productive possibilities between these different discourses to show how local meanings of educating for citizenship are emerging to include those who are socially marginalized, to attend to material needs, and to foster new social and political identities among Tanzanian youth.
AB - Educating for citizenship is increasingly situated within the tension of ensuring social, political, and civil rights while also promoting participation in the global market. The literature and practice on educating for citizenship often assumes a liberal perspective with attention to political and civil rights. A growing body of literature shows how neoliberal ideas and values of individual responsibility, empowerment, and participation in the market economy are increasingly influencing education for citizenship. This article draws on data from a non-governmental organization’s entrepreneurship education program in Tanzania that aims to foster both rights and skills development for employment in a global market. Using Tsing’s idea of friction, I uncover the productive possibilities between these different discourses to show how local meanings of educating for citizenship are emerging to include those who are socially marginalized, to attend to material needs, and to foster new social and political identities among Tanzanian youth.
KW - Tanzania
KW - citizenship
KW - entrepreneurship education
KW - liberalism
KW - neoliberalism
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U2 - 10.1177/1746197914545926
DO - 10.1177/1746197914545926
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84907511970
SN - 1746-1979
VL - 9
SP - 226
EP - 238
JO - Education, Citizenship and Social Justice
JF - Education, Citizenship and Social Justice
IS - 3
ER -