The Exchanges

  • William F. Pinar
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Part of the International and Development Education book series (INTDE)

Abstract

Internationalization is a conversation complicated by one’s insulation within the intellectual histories that inevitably imprints our work as well as the present circumstances that press upon us, demanding our attention and threatening to submerge us in the moment at hand. While increasingly influenced globally, these present circumstances are indelibly local, as they encode specific histories the materialization of which creates the world we inhabit now. The history of the present tends to be opaque to the uninformed outsider. Only by serious study—focused here by questions—can one glimpse the present as a melting moment in time and decode the dynamism of what appears as unchanging. In the quest for understanding, the outsider cannot suspend all of his or her assumptions—no questions can be asked unless they originate in what one knows or thinks one knows—but can seek clarification. That is, if those with whom we are in conversation are willing to teach us what we do not know. Poonam Batra, Mary Ann Chacko, Suresh Ghosh, and Meenakshi Thapan kindly consented to teach.1 Lesley Le Grange and Hongyu Wang kindly consented to study, first through reading the essays (now chapters 1–5) and then seeking clarification of specific concepts and circumstances from the scholar-participants themselves.

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School Curriculum Government School Curriculum Study Regional Language Congress Party 
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