William F. Pinar

The Worldliness of a Cosmopolitan Education

Passionate Lives in Public Service

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Produktbeschreibung

William F. Pinar outlines a cosmopolitan curriculum focused on passionate lives in public service, providing one set of answers to how the field of curriculum studies accepts and attends to the inextricably interwoven relations among intellectual rigor, scholarly erudition, and intense but variegated engagement with the world.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 151mm x 229mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780415995511
• ISBN-10: 0415995515
• Artikelnr.: 26868391

Autorenporträt

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- William F. Pinar teaches curriculum theory at the University of British Columbia, where he holds a Canada Research Chair and directs the Centre for the Study of the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 "The Problem of My Life and Flesh"
Part I: On Strategically Dysfunctional Essentialism, and Other Problems of
the Not Exactly Cosmopolitan Present
Chapter 2 The Agony and Ecstasy of the Particular
Chapter 3 Only the Sign is For Sale
Chapter 4 A Declaration of Independence
Part II: Passionate Lives in Public Service
Chapter 5 Jane Addams: A "Person of Marked Individuality"
Chapter 6 Religion, Love, and Democracy in Laura Bragg's Boxes
Chapter 7 Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Most "Excellent Pedagogist"
Epilogue