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Within a social imaginary, education plays a key role in forming, legitimating and perpetuating it, by producing a particular type of person. In the Modern Social Imaginary the ideas of the Enlightenment had the purpose of initially assimilating the working class and sometimes immigrants into the national culture, engendering loyalty to the nation-state, developing professionals and induction into industrial life. This then moved into engagement with the economic vitality of the nation. A global form, of schools, curricular, credentials and teachers all working within a national system also emerged.
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Buckles, J. (2018). Education in the Modern Social Imaginary. In: Education, Sustainability and the Ecological Social Imaginary. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74442-1_4
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