ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how education approaches cosmopolitanism. Despite the variety of perspectives, most educational efforts converge on a crucial point namely the primacy of culturalist cosmopolitanism. Culturalist cosmopolitanism refers to an approach to cosmopolitanism from the perspective of cultural difference and cultural identity in general, be it hybrid or "coherent" and a loss of sight of any other possible focal point of cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitanism portrays the lifestyle of a globally conscious person, a cultivated citizen of the world, an individual with multiple identities or multi-national citizenships. According to Tim Brennan, in the interplay of class and race, metropolis, and periphery, 'high' and 'low' the cosmopolitans have found a special home, for the avatars of homelessness are both capturing a new world reality that has a definite social basis in immigration and international communications, and are at the same time fulfilling the paradoxical expectations of a metropolitan public.
