{"product_id":"the-worldliness-of-a-cosmopolitan-education-9780415995504","title":"The Worldliness of a Cosmopolitan Education","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePinar positions himself against three pressing problems of the profession: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe crime of collectivism that identity politics commits, \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe devaluation of academic knowledge by the programmatic preoccupations of teacher education, and \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe effacement of educational experience by standardized testing. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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 cosmopo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 \"The Problem of My Life and Flesh\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: On Strategically Dysfunctional Essentialism, and Other Problems of the Not Exactly Cosmopolitan Present\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2 The Agony and Ecstasy of the Particular\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Only the Sign is For Sale\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4 A Declaration of Independence \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Passionate Lives in Public Service\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Jane Addams: A \"Person of Marked Individuality\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Religion, Love, and Democracy in Laura Bragg’s Boxes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7 Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Most \"Excellent Pedagogist\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402164019543,"sku":"9780415995504","price":133.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415995504.jpg?v=1730479579","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-worldliness-of-a-cosmopolitan-education-9780415995504","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}