Patriotic Attachment and Cosmopolitan Response: A Perspective on Teaching and Education for Our Time

• In Event: Patriotic Education in the Age of Trump

Abstract

This presentation will draw on the author’s seminal work on the moral life of classrooms and recent work on the relationships between cosmopolitanism, students’ roots in a local community, and the former’s call to response to the world. It will bring the perspectives of this body of work to bear on specific aspects of the target presentation: its understanding of the compatibility of virtuous patriotism with appropriate responsiveness to the world beyond one’s own country; its vision of inclusive just school communities; its understanding of student motivation; and its vision of education for global civic friendship. The methods relied on include classroom ethnography, scholarship on the history of cosmopolitanism, and educational philosophy and ethics.

Author

• David T. Hansen, Teachers College, Columbia University