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Why Cosmopolitanism Needs Rethinking

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This chapter argues that hegemonic conceptions of cosmopolitanism fail to theorize a complex cosmopolitan normativity. Within such hegemonies, cosmopolitan education for global citizenship constructs future citizens as culturally mixed-up selves mobile across borders and merely respectful to, and tolerant of, the diversity that they encounter. The reader of the chapter will be presented with arguments about why this is politically too inadequate to cover the normative significance of cosmopolitanism and too uninspiring as regards citizenship education. Cosmopolitanism needs a rethinking that makes higher ethico-political demands on the global self and world for the cultivation of critical-educational ecological and relational sensibilities.

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  1. University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Marianna Papastephanou

  2. Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Marianna Papastephanou

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  1. Department of Education, University of York, York, United Kingdom

    Ian Davies

  2. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

    Li-Ching Ho

  3. Department of Education and Social Justice, School of Education, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Dina Kiwan

  4. Department of Elementary Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Carla L. Peck

  5. Faculty of Education, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, United Kingdom

    Andrew Peterson

  6. Faculty of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Edda Sant

  7. Department of Education Policy Studies, Faculty of Education, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

    Yusef Waghid

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Papastephanou, M. (2018). Why Cosmopolitanism Needs Rethinking. In: Davies, I., et al. The Palgrave Handbook of Global Citizenship and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59733-5_12

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