Trying to Teach in a Season of Great Untruth: Globalization, Empire and the Crises of PedagogyThese 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 SPHERE THE 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 BUT THE 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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