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

by William F. Pinar

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415995515
• ISBN13: 9780415995511
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.1"