Pinar positions himself against three pressing problems of the
profession:
- the crime of collectivism that identity politics commits,
- the devaluation of academic knowledge by the programmatic
preoccupations of teacher education, and
- the effacement of educational experience by standardized
testing.
A 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 cosmopolitanism. Subjectivity takes form in
the world, and the world is itself reconstructed by subjectivity s
engagement with it.
In this intriguing, thought-provoking, and nuanced work, Pinar
outlines a cosmopolitan curriculum focused on passionate lives in
public service, providing one set of answers to how the field
accepts and attends to the inextricably interwoven relations among
intellectual rigor, scholarly erudition, and intense but variegated
engagement with the world.
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