Trying to Teach in a Season of Great Untruth: Globalization, Empire and the Crises of Pedagogy

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Sense Publishers, 2006 - Education - 134 pages
These essays address contemporary issues in teaching, curriculum and pedagogy through tensions arising from the processes of globalization and empire. Of particular significance are the prejudices of Homo Oeconomicus or Economic Man (sic) that reduce the most profound of human relations, like those between the young and their elders, to an evermore constraining grammar of profit and loss. The predations of empire in turn divide the world into a site of war between friends and enemies, winners and losers. The times are dangerous, and educators need to speak to the world from the wisdom of their experience of standing with the young, for whom alone the future may still be open.
 

Contents

On Enfraudening the Public SphereThe Futility of Empire and the Future of Knowledge After America
1
The Specific Challenges of Globalization for Teaching and Vice versa
15
the Farthest West is butthe Farthest East The Long Way of OrientalOccidental Engagement
35
Troubles With the Sacred Canopy Global Citizenship in a Season of Great Untruth
59
Not Rocket Science On the Limits of Conservative Pedagogy
71
Globalization and Curriculum Studies
81
A Few Modest Prophecies The WTO Globalization and the Future of Reason
99
The Mission of the Hermeneutic Scholar
105
Notes
117
References
119
Index
129
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