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Citizenship in a Hybrid State: Civic Curriculum in Jordan’s Education Reform for Knowledge Economy Era

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Jordan, a small and less affluent economy in the Middle East, has recently engaged in a comprehensive educational reform effort to prepare learners for the knowledge economy. This article examines some of the challenges faced by the Jordanian government as it simultaneously navigates liberalization and traditional markers of citizen identity. The literature review reveals that both tradition and modernity are promoted in a hybridized school curriculum. Interviews with teachers who instruct from the National and Civic Curriculum illustrate how Jordan is being influenced by the global-local interplay of political, economic, and sociocultural forces. The construction of citizenship promoted is one of tentativeness toward “becoming modern” while adhering to a prescribed morality. The concept of ‘hybrid sovereignty’ advanced by Gökhan Bacik is the main theoretical perspective applied in our analysis of citizen identity in civic curriculum in Jordan. The article concludes with some influences of the Arab Spring on the nation and its educational reform processes.
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