Programs for democratic citizenship in Mexico's ministry of education: local appropriations of global cultural flows.(Globalization and Education)

INTRODUCTION

new scholarship in comparative education has called attention to the puzzles and challenges associated with the intensified globalization of educational programs. (1) Structural arrangements for schooling in poorer countries have become increasingly make subordinate to the mandates of neoliberal economic policy as these are dictated through powerful international agencies and national elites. In places like Latin America, the novel predominance of schemes for educational decentralization, privatization, and "accountability" illustrate that, in matters of policy,