Description
Product ID: | 9780415995511 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Studies in Curriculum Theory Series |
Title: | The Worldliness of a Cosmopolitan Education |
Subtitle: | Passionate Lives in Public Service |
Authors: | Author: William F. Pinar |
Page Count: | 236 |
Subjects: | Philosophy and theory of education, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies and policy, Curriculum planning and development, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational strategies & policy, Curriculum planning & development, Teaching of a specific subject |
Description: | Select Guide Rating William F. Pinar outlines a cosmopolitan curriculum focused on passionate lives in public service, providing one set of answers to how the field of curriculum studies accepts and attends to the inextricably interwoven relations among intellectual rigor, scholarly erudition, and intense but variegated engagement with the world. Pinar positions himself against three pressing problems of the profession:
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. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2009-06-03 |