Showing papers by "Thomas S. Popkewitz published in 2011"

Curriculum history, schooling and the history of the present

Abstract: The essay focuses on curriculum history as the study of systems of reason. The first section considers curriculum as ‘converting ordinances’, inscribing Puritan notions of education as evangelizing and calculating designs in American Progressive education. The second section examines the Social Question, a cross‐Atlantic Protestant reformist movement concerned with the moral disorders of the city that underlie the new sociology and psychologies of schooling. The sciences embodied cosmopolitan cultural theses about modes of life and the urban child who threatened that envisioned future. Hall, Thorndike and Dewey, with different pedagogical implications, embodied these hopes and fears. The final section explores the formation of mathematics, literacy and music education as ‘converting ordinances’ designed in relation to the Social Question. The essay is synoptic and goes against the grain of social and intellectual history through examining the grid of practices in which principles were generated regarding ...

The Past as the Future of the Social and Education Sciences

Abstract: During the Cold War, a prominent American sociologist wrote about the two Marxisms: the intellectual project to understand critically historically the conditions that made the present possible and the political project to plan for the future utopia (Gouldner, 1970) The former has been extremely influential; the other fell apart after its seventieth birthday in the last decade of the twentieth century This distinction between the study of the present and the planning for the future, however, is not merely a remnant of the Cold War

Cosmopolitismo, o Cidadão e os Processos de Abjeção: os duplos gestos da pedagogia

Abstract: O artigo diz respeito a producao cultural do cidadao Defende que a escolarizacao acarreta um duplo gesto: a inscricao de teses cosmopolitas sobre a crianca como futuro cidadao e processos de abjecao, e o banimento dos que constituem temores daquele futuro Esse cidadao cosmopolita corporifica esperancas globais de uma humanidade unificada guiada pela razao e pela racionalidade, e dotada de hospitalidade para com os Outros A unidade, contudo, incorpora divisoes que distinguem as qualidades do cidadao em relacao aos abjetos: grupos e individuos reconhecidos como tendo necessidade de programas especiais a fim de serem incluidos, ainda que diferentes e excluidos em virtude de seus modos de vida As reformas escolares contemporâneas nos Estados Unidos e na Europa, assim como a pesquisa nesses paises, inscrevem os duplos gestos: o cosmopolitismo inacabado e o imigrante urbano desfavorecido, e “a crianca deixada para tras”, localizados em espacos intermediarios entre a inclusao e a exclusao O artigo conclui explorando a pesquisa orientada para a reforma, a qual projeta mudancas nas condicoes da escola ― mudancas essas que projetam as pessoas atraves de teses culturais Cosmopolitanism, the citizen and process of abjection: the double gestures of pedagogy Abstract This chapter concerns the cultural production of the citizen It argues that schooling entails double gestures: the inscription of cosmopolitan theses about the child as the future citizen and processes of abjection, the casting out of those who constitute fears of that future That cosmopolitan citizen embodies global hopes of a unified humanity guided by reason, rationality, and with hospitality to Others The unity, however, embodies comparative divisions that distinguish the qualities of the citizen from those abjected; groups and individual recognized in need of special programs in order be included; yet different and excluded by virtue of their modes of life Contemporary US and European school reforms and research inscribe the double gestures: the unfinished cosmopolitanism and the urban, disadvantaged, immigrant, and “the child left behind” as in the in-between space of inclusion and exclusion The third section explores reform oriented research that designs changes in the school conditions designs people though a comparative cultural theses Taducao de Helena Beatriz Mascarenhas de Souza Revisao da traducao de Maria Manuela Alves Gacria