This article reviews the rival trends and competing discourses within the cosmopolitan tradition to formulate a comprehensive educational approach, called 'rooted cosmopolitanism', that is timely, conceptually operational, culturally sensitive, and applicable in local educational settings. After reviewing the existing conceptions of…

Any given academic discipline appeals to and utilizes more than one mode of knowledge; most subject matter disciplines are "interdisciplinary." To be truly educated is to have learned which intellectual difficulties to take as challenges and which to put in their place as matters of personalities or fads. (MLW)

Examines the acquisition of teacher skills which facilitate learning on both affective and cognitive levels. The successful teacher "intentionally" chooses between a wide range of alternative teaching behaviors when reacting to the situation at hand. Flander's Interaction Analysis System and Ivey Taxonomy provide information useful to…