The Worldliness of a Cosmopolitan Education: Passionate Lives in Public Service
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ISBN-13: 9780415995504 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Publication date: 06/03/2009 Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series Pages: 240 Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.70(d) 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 the concrete, the collective and the individual: history and biography, politics and art, public service and private passion. Such a curriculum provides passages between the subjective and the social, and in so doing, engenders that worldliness a cosmopolitan education invites. Such worldliness is vividly discernible in the lives of three heroic individuals: Jane Addams (1860-1935), Laura Bragg (1881-1978), and Pier Paolo Pasolini (

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