Dr. William Pinar | Canada Research Chair, Faculty of Education, UBC
January 13, 2010 | 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. | Green College, UBC
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Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education (CCFI) COSMO/POLITICS NOTED SCHOLARS LECTURE SERIES
CO-SPONSORED BY: College for Interdisciplinary Studies (CFIS), Critical Studies in Sexuality,
Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, and Department of Educational Studies.
Abstract:
Jane Addams was a social activist and theorist who was born in 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois, and died in Chicago in 1935. It is how she traveled from Cedarville to Chicago that Dr. Pinar will discuss, an educational journey that began at home in her father’s library, was formalized at Rockford Female Seminary (now Rockford
College), and continued during her two tours of Europe during which she met Leo Tolstoy and visited Toynbee Hall in London, where her inchoate conception of public service took a more specific, indeed singular, form. As her biographers make clear,
Addams sought lived experience to supplement academic study, thereby reconstructing both, transposing her devotion to her family into devotion to the world. From teaching her neighbors to teaching her fellow human beings, Addams’ quietly passionate life was expressed in profound public service. Dr. Pinar suggests that Addams personifies–in a singular, still echoing form – the worldliness of a cosmopolitan education affords.
Short Bio:
Dr. William Pinar is Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Faculty of Education at UBC. He directs the Centre for the Study of the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies. His most recent book is The Worldliness of a Cosmopolitan Education (Routledge, 2009).