Cosmopolitanism, Communication, and Citizenship Education

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

The objective of the symposium is to highlight the question of education as a communicative and moral arena for citizenship education in a cosmopolitan perspective, and to elucidate and problematize its consequences. In what ways can the relation between cosmopolitanism, communication and citizenship education be understood? In what ways can public education become an arena for communicative encounters between different outlooks on the world?
The specific approach in this symposium is to relate sociological and philosophical perspectives on cosmopolitanism to theoretical concepts on communication and deliberation; and to study the effect and impact of such relations regarding our understanding the conditions for communication in an increasingly interconnected world, and its consequences for citizenship education in public education.

Sub Unit

• International Relations Committee

Chair

• Ninni Wahlstrom, Orebro University

Papers

• Educational Cosmopolitanism: Making Meaning Through Reflective Conversations - Ninni Wahlstrom, Orebro University

• To Live Educationally: To Develop Curriculum in Line With Cosmopolitan Inheritance - Tomas Englund, Orebro University

• Valuing Humanity as Cosmopolitan Beings - Klas Roth, Stockholm University

• The Cosmopolitan Challenge and the Need for a Communicative Leadership - Niclas Ronnstrom, Stockholm University

Discussant

• David T. Hansen, Teachers College, Columbia University