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The Worldliness of a Cosmopolitan Education: Passionate Lives in Public Service book cover

1st Edition

The Worldliness of a Cosmopolitan Education Passionate Lives in Public Service

By William F. Pinar Copyright 2009
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge
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Pinar positions himself against three pressing problems of the profession: the crime of collectivism that identity politics commits, the devaluation of academic knowledge by the programmatic preoccupations of teacher education, and the effacement of educational experience by standardized testing. A cosmopolitan curriculum, Pinar argues, juxtaposes the abstract and... Read more

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 "The Problem of My Life and Flesh"

Part I: On Strategically Dysfunctional Essentialism, and Other Problems of the Not Exactly Cosmopolitan Present

Chapter 2 The Agony and Ecstasy of the Particular

Chapter 3 Only the Sign is For Sale

Chapter 4 A Declaration of Independence

Part II: Passionate Lives in Public Service

Chapter 5 Jane Addams: A "Person of Marked Individuality"

Chapter 6 Religion, Love, and Democracy in Laura Bragg’s Boxes

Chapter 7 Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Most "Excellent Pedagogist"

Epilogue

Biography

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William F. Pinar teaches curriculum theory at the University of British Columbia, where he holds a Canada Research Chair and directs the Centre for the Study of the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies.

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