ABSTRACT
Two main contemporary approaches of the political challenge in globalization are identity politics and the politics of difference. Identity politics defends unconditionally the preservation of the communal ethos that binds people with a specific social configuration. The politics of difference defends unconditionally one's right to autonomously define and construct one's own self and to assert one's own divergence from a specific collectivity. There are approaches within globalist discourse that presents mediations, or solutions beyond the identity-versus-difference dilemma, or concessions. According to David Hansen's "From a cosmopolitan perspective education has to do with new forms of understanding, undergoing, and moving in the world". Some educational theorists refer to the fact that globalization threatens traditional forms and structures of pedagogy to render them obsolete. whereas educational globalization concerns new global policies and the structural changes of schooling that those are causing, the cosmopolitan pedagogical ideal concerns the cultivation of resistant, critical, and reflective subjectivities.
