Worldliness of a Cosmopolitan Education

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 colle...