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 …

Present-day America is perceived by many as immersed in a moral crisis, with national
identity fractured and uncertainty and anxiety about the future. Public schools in this country …

In this chapter Kwame Anthony Appiah moves the discussion of civic education from a
national to a global context. He demonstrates that the idea of global citizenship is older than …

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Teachers the world over are seeking creative ways to respond to the problems and …

In this volume, Pinar enacts his theory of curriculum, detailing the relations among
knowledge, history, and alterity. The introduction is Pinar's intellectual life history, naming …

The theory of cosmopolitanism is built on a paradoxical commitment to a universal idea of
humanity and to a respect for human pluralism. Toward an Imperfect Education critiques the …

In this article I discuss Martha Nussbaum's cosmopolitan educational ideal and its
theoretical underpinnings. I argue that, in spite of its merits, it overlooks the historical …

From Commodity to Cosmopolitan aLLan LuKe inTROduCTiOn nearly three decades after
apple's Ideology and Curriculum (1979), some issues addressed there are still unresolved …

As part of the “Stand Up and Speak” campaign to raise awareness of the UN Millennium
Campaign to “make poverty history,” the Canadian coalition of volunteer cooperation …

Our age is the time of 'individual utopias', of utopias privatized, and so it comes naturally (as
well as being a fashionable thing to do) to deride and ridicule such projects which imply a …