ABSTRACT
In Canada recently, at the formal signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Blue Quills Tribal College in Saddlelake Reserve and the University of Alberta, the Provincial Minister for Advanced Education spoke with eloquence about the role of higher education in promoting the knowledge economy and the responsibility of graduates to contribute back to the Province and facilitate provincial engagement in the global economy, thus contributing to their responsibility to become good citizens. There is of course nothing new in these laudable ambitions. The function of education in creating good citizens and in honing the competitive economic edge has been one of the markers of high modernity since the Enlightenment. In the contemporary moment, the intertwining of citizenship with the economic good has become a key signifi er of “good” educational policy.
