Cosmopolitanism and the Age of School Reform

<p>In Cosmopolitanism and the Age of School Reform noted educationalist Thomas Popkewitz explores turn-of-the-century and contemporary pedagogical reforms while illuminating their complex relation to cosmopolitanism. Popkewitz highlights how policies that include all children and leave no child behind are rooted in a philosophy of cosmopolitanism—not just in salvation themes of human agency freedom and empowerment but also in the processes of abjection and the differentiation of the disadvantaged urban and child left behind as Other.</p>