ABSTRACT
This chapter extends some of the ideas that connect the various chapters of this book by focusing on the intersection of the questions. The questions are: what kind of political agency is implicitly endorsed in an official politics of inclusion that is undeniably committed to the major tenets of a multicultural democracy: hybridity, difference, and diversity? What is wrong with current conceptions of multicultural democracy? In addressing this issue it is necessary to situate multicultural education in a larger problematic beyond the politics of inclusion. The chapter claims that a multiculturalist pluralism that purports to be inclusive may actually be founded upon discourses and practices of structural exclusion. Pluralism as an operational mechanism reduces politics to the instrumentality of management and democracy to a set of procedural rules. Pluralism suggests that individuals incorporate all values in a single viewpoint and that they must remain equidistant from all dogmas.
