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Internationalisation, Diversity and the Humanities Curriculum: Cosmopolitanism and Multiculturalism Revisited
Author(s) -
DONALD JAMES
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2007.00572.x
Subject(s) - cosmopolitanism , multiculturalism , sociology , argument (complex analysis) , curriculum , globalization , diversity (politics) , internationalization , cultural pluralism , multicultural education , epistemology , order (exchange) , social science , pedagogy , anthropology , political science , philosophy , law , politics , biochemistry , chemistry , finance , economics , microeconomics
This article stages a dialogue between cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism in order to think through what is at stake in demands that universities should produce graduates who are sensitive to social diversity and attuned to the contemporary realities of globalisation. The argument is that, although ‘graduate attributes’ are no doubt an effective management tool in a massified higher education system, they can also be used to focus attention on what dispositions it is reasonable and desirable to expect graduates to develop. The arguments about cosmopolitanism of Jeremy Waldron and Martha Nussbaum are considered.