Synopses & Reviews
This book explores changing cultural theses of cosmopolitanism in contemporary U.S. school reforms and its sciences. Noted educationalist Thomas Popkewitz explores turn of the twentieth century and contemporary pedagogical reforms in teaching and curriculum standards and reform research to consider the changing principles of who the child is, should be, and who is not that child - the anthropological 'Others'. He deftly shows that cosmopolitanism has importance in contemporary discussions of globalization and efforts to promote a universal system of human values in schooling and politics.
Synopsis
In Cosmopolitanism and the Age of School Reform, noted educationalist Thomas Popkewitz explores turn-of-the-century and contemporary pedagogical reforms while illuminating their complex relation to cosmopolitanism. Popkewitz highlights how policies that include all children and leave no child behind are rooted in a philosophy of cosmopolitanism?not just in salvation themes of human agency, freedom, and empowerment, but also in the processes of abjection and the differentiation of the disadvantaged, urban, and child left behind as Other.