Metropolitan Education and Value Creation

By Gonzalo A Obelleiro

It's February 2012 and I arrive in Buenos Aires to spend one year writing a thesis on cosmopolitan education. Growing up in a working class, industrial town outside the city, taking the bus downtown was always a great adventure. The cosmopolitan capital, the "Latin American Paris," with its tourists, fashion, and Friday night lights was a place of promise, a gateway out to the world. This time, however, the cab ride from the airport is a journey back home to the comforts of familiar ways of life. It is my first time to live in my native city, not just visit, in more than ten years. With time, the relationship of "home" to "world" has grown ambiguous, and the places and images anchored to these concepts have become interchangeable. New York City was once the symbol of a globalized, wide, wide world; with time, returning to my apartment on Central Park West after visiting my parents in Buenos Aires started to feel like homecoming- sometimes there is no greater culture shock than going back to the house where one grew up

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1835200370
• ISBN13: 9781835200377
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Caralisahb
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"