Cosmopolitanism and the Age of School Reform: Science, Education, and Making Society by Making the Child

by Thomas S. Popkewitz

Overview

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."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135905187
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/02/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	236
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Thomas S. Popkewitz is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE: COSMOPOLITANISM: AN OBJECT OF STUDY CHAPTER 2: THE REASON IN QUESTION: COSMOPOLITANISM AND ITS DOUBLE GESTURES PART ONE: TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY REFORMS, THE UNFINISHED COSMOPOLITAN AND SCIENCES OF EDUCATION CHAPTER 3: COSMOPOLITANISM, AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM, AND THE MAKING OF SCHOOLING COSMOPOLITANISM, AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM, AND INVENTING THE SELF CHAPTER 4: THE SCIENCES OF PEDAGOGY IN THE DESIGNING THE FUTURE CHAPTER 5: EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY: CALCULATING AGENCY AND ORDERING COMMUNITY SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: URBANIZING THE PASTORAL "COMMUNITY" IN GOVERNING THE FAMILY AND CHILD CHAPTER SIX: THE ALCHEMY OF SCHOOL SUBJECTS: THE HOPE OF RESCUE AND FEARS OF DIFFERENCE PART TWO: TURN OF THE 21ST CENTURY REFORMS, THE UNFINISHED COSMOPOLITAN AND SCIENCES OF EDUCATION CHAPTER SEVEN: THE UNFINISHED COSMOPOLITAN: CULTURAL THESES OF PROBLEM SOLVING AND COLLABORATION IN LIFELONG LEARNING CHAPTER NINE: DESIGNING PEOPLE: AGENCY AND THE FEARS OF THOSE LEFT BEHIND IN INSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH CHAPTER 10: THE REASON OF SCHOOL PEDAGOGY, RESEARCH AND THE LIMITS OF COSMOPOLITANISM

Editorial Reviews

Thomas Popkewitz´s book, Cosmopolitanism and the Age of School Reform, is a very interesting endeavour to test the limits of the Enlightenment without giving up its notions of human agency and freedom...With very nicely judged moves, it attacks the commitment to planning and making agents (as it is manifested in the social sciences and as it fixes the boundaries of freedom) while renouncing, towards the end of the text, the relativism of formal equivalence of political cultures (p. 185) and reasserting the cosmopolitan attitude to reason, freedom, justice and hospitality to others (p. 184)." — Marianna Papstephanou, August 07, 2008, Teachers College Record

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