ABSTRACT
I argued in the previous chapter that the framework of global competencies relies on moral sources deeply embedded in the Western Enlightenment, specifically the particularities of the modern self. In this sense, the global citizen ideal, instead of freeing students from authority and constraints, serves to conform them to uniquely modern notions of expressive and utilitarian individualism. Rather than a rupture of older forms, it represents an intensification of the tensions and constraints of modern individualism.
