42.024 - Postnationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Implications for Leadership and Curriculum-Making

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Today a majority of nations have developed simultaneously toward increasing internal plurality and increasing global homogenization of curriculum aims. These challenges call for both a cosmopolitan view as well as educational thinking and curricula that respects cultural, ethical and epistemological variations. Papers in this symposium ask what kind of citizenship (political, economical and cultural) our contemporary educational institutions should promote amidst these contemporary challenges for democratic nation states. Further, the authors consider strengths and limitations of contemporary educational theorizing and methodologies in answering these questions through varying historical, contextual, theoretical and epistemological lenses as well as implications for leadership and curriculum making. In so doing, this symposium also provides opportunities for cross-national dialogue and potential future research collaboration among scholars.

Sub Unit

• Nordic Educational Research Association

Chairs

• Michael Uljens, Abo Academy University - Finland

• Rose M. Ylimaki, The University of Arizona

Papers

• Globalizing Curriculum and Evaluation Policy: A Nonaffirmative Approach for Democratic Education - Rose M. Ylimaki, The University of Arizona; Michael Uljens, Abo Academy University - Finland

• Constructing a Nonaffirmative Approach: Rethinking Text, Talk, and Technology Within an Academic Curriculum Discourse - Kirsten Sivesind, University of Oslo

• Dewey, Democracy, and Nation-State Education - Ninni Wahlstrom, Linnaeus University

• Against the Epistemicide: Toward a Nonabyssal Curriculum - Joao Menelau Paraskeva, University of Massachusetts

• Ambivalence, Reflexivity, and Morality as Contested Coordinates for Cosmopolitan Curriculum - Tero Henrik Autio, Tallinn University

Discussant

• Robert James Helfenbein, Loyola University Maryland