Smashing cosmopolitanism: the Neo-liberal destruction of cosmopolitan education in East-Central Europe

Title: Smashing cosmopolitanism: the Neo-liberal destruction of cosmopolitan education in East-Central Europe
Creator: Imre, Robert J.; Millei, Zsuzsa
Relation: Current Issues in Comparative Education Vol. 12, Issue 1, p. 76-85
Relation: http://www.tc.edu/cice/Issues/12.01/12_01.html
Publisher: Columbia University
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2009
Description: Critiques that seek to examine cosmopolitanism as a concept suffer from a severe popularity problem. Rather than engage in this pro/con debate, we are interested in demonstrating that cosmopolitanism can wax and wane, ebb and flow, and has appeared as a grounding ideology for educational programs before, only to be torn asunder by those seeking to consolidate regime change. We do not suggest that cosmopolitanism is good and righteous politics, normatively opposed to or supporting patriotism, nor is it ideologically left, right or centre. We see a burgeoning cosmopolitan outlook in a particular time and place, that was smashed by political and social forces both unforeseen and powerful, changing foundational concepts of education in East-Central Europe in general and Hungary in particular.
Subject: cosmopolitanism; education; Neo-liberal; Cold War; East-Central Europe; ideology
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/916080
Identifier: uon:7890
Identifier: ISSN:1523-1615
Language: eng
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