Shifts in technology and ideology blur distinctions
between people and machines, nations, and multinationals. Neoliberal economic policies in Mexico
clashed with the national identity traditionally fostered by the official educational system. Calling for
dialogue not imposed truths, historians rejected at
tempts to align textbooks with the new agenda during
a 3-year controversy. [Curriculum is] a specially constructed information system whose purpose, in its totality, is to influence, teach, train, or cultivate the mind and character of youth. —Neil Postman (cited in Brosio, 1994, p. 243)
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