Trends and Typologies of Cosmopolitanism in Education Reference library
Hannah Spector
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies
...populist movements, and renationalization trends as a backlash to the ruthlessness of economic globalization. These movements can be seen, for example, in Make America Great Again, in Putin’s conservative rebranding of Russia, and in Brexit, which has been called “a mutiny against the cosmopolitan elite” ( Calhoun, 2016 , p. 50). Brexit, for example, helps illustrate the ways in which cosmopolitanism becomes associated with urbanites and the super-rich, who are said to be out of touch with the grievances of the “native” working class (p. 53). When...
Education in British India Reference library
Deepak Kumar
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Race and Education
...technical education. This movement for the cultivation of science had an enormous psychological impact. It symbolized the search for a distinct Indian identity in the world of science. 5 A few years earlier, Syed Ahmed ( 1817–1898 ), who tried to reform the Muslim society post-Mutiny, had formed a scientific society at Aligarh. Its idea was not promotion of scientific research, but its popularization to fight the prevalent superstition and to develop some sort of scientific temper. Sir Syed’s idea was to reform the tradition-bound Muslim society from within....
