영국의 ‘영국적 가치’ 교육의 맥락과 논쟁

Context of and Controversy over ‘British Values’ Education: Is it Civic Nationalism or Racial Imperialism?

This article also explored the social context of institutionalizing British Values education and mobilizing citizenship and history programs to create national identity by Labour and Conservative governments in the last two decades. This article also explores the problems and criticisms faced by British Values education and the controversy over its policy. Based on news paper articles, governmental documents, and academic works, this article has found that the British governments has imposed the social cohesion duty in the 20000s and the prevent duty in the 2010s in response to social diversity, and that a few scholars have justified the British Values education as ‘reconstructive citizenship intervention’ in terms of liberal civil nationalism, but others have criticized it as a surveillance strategy, racial imperialism, white supremacy, and a discourse of exclusion. The British case helps gain an insight into the pitfalls of identity formation based on specific values in the age of migration and diversity.