For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education (Race, Education, and Democracy)

by Christopher Emdin

As a philosophy, cosmopolitanism is often traced back to Greek tradition. Anthropologists like Gustavo Ribeiro describe it as a way of being in the world that focuses on an individual’s embodiment of tolerance, sensitivity, and inclusiveness of others in the process of being a “citizen of the world.”