Toward Cosmopolitan Sensibilities in Curriculum Studies

• In Event: Roundtable Session 122
  In Roundtable Session: Crossing Borders: Rethinking Culture, Context, and Choice in Curriculum Studies

Abstract

This philosophical essay, adding to the internationalization of curriculum studies (see Pinar, 2003), articulates an important dispositional component of internationalization: cosmopolitan sensibilities. In developing the notion of cosmopolitan sensibilities for curriculum studies, this philosophical essay moves through the following thought contours: This essay (1) critiques continual “revolutions” in knowledge-based economies as conservative institution and identifies cultural studies “new waves” in curriculum studies as representative of this conservatism; (2) defines and develops the notion of cosmopolitan sensibilities as turning away from cultural studies new waves and emphasizing study of intellectual history; and, (3) provides examples of scholarship that embody cosmopolitan sensibilities outside and inside curriculum studies.

Author

• James C. Jupp, Georgia Southern University