Pinar The Worldliness of a Cosmopolitan Education

Passionate Lives in Public Service
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-135-84484-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series

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 (1922-1975). What these disparate individuals demonstrate is the centrality of subjectivity in the cultivation of cosmopolitanism. Subjectivity takes form in the world, and the world is itself reconstructed by subjectivity’s engagement with it.

In this intriguing, thought-provoking, and nuanced work, Pinar outlines a cosmopolitan curriculum focused on passionate lives in public service, providing one set of answers to how the field accepts and attends to the inextricably interwoven relations among intellectual rigor, scholarly erudition, and intense but variegated engagement with the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pinar, William F.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Curricula: Planung und Entwicklung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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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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