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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