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The Teacher and the World - A Study of Cosmopolitanism as Education (Hardcover)
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The Teacher and the World - A Study of Cosmopolitanism as Education (Hardcover)
Series: Teacher Quality and School Development
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Winner of the 2013 American Educational Studies Association's 2013
Critics Choice Award! Teachers the world over are seeking creative
ways to respond to the problems and possibilities generated by
globalization. Many of them work with children and youth from
increasingly varied backgrounds, with diverse needs and
capabilities. Others work with homogeneous populations and yet are
aware that their students will encounter many cultural changes in
their lifetimes. All struggle with the contemporary conditions of
teaching: endless top-down measures to manipulate what they do,
rapid economic turns and inequality in supportive resources that
affect their lives and those of their students, a torrent of media
stimuli that distract educational focus, and growth as well as
shifts in population. In The Teacher and the World, David T. Hansen
provides teachers with a way to reconstruct their philosophies of
education in light of these conditions. He describes an orientation
toward education that can help them to address both the challenges
and opportunities thrown their way by a globalized world. Hansen
builds his approach around cosmopolitanism, an ancient idea with an
ever-present and ever-beautiful meaning for educators. The idea
pivots around educating for what the author calls reflective
openness to new people and new ideas, and reflective loyalty toward
local values, interests, and commitments. The book shows how this
orientation applies to teachers at all levels of the system, from
primary through university. Hansen deploys many examples to
illustrate how its core value, a balance of reflective openness to
the new and reflective loyalty to the known, can be cultivated
while teaching different subjects in different kinds of settings.
The author draws widely on the work of educators, scholars in the
humanities and social sciences, novelists, artists, travellers and
others from both the present and past, as well as from around the
world. These diverse figures illuminate the promise in a
cosmopolitan outlook on education in our time. In this pioneering
book, Hansen has provided teachers, heads of school, teacher
educators, researchers, and policy-makers a generative way to
respond creatively to the pressure and the promise of a globalizing
world.
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