ABSTRACT
The dominant tendency is to discuss cosmopolitanism and patriotism through the prism of rootlessness and rootedness, respectively. A major consequence of this tendency is to miss the complexity of the relation between cosmopolitanism and patriotism and to obscure their connection with a more profound sense of justice. This chapter argues for the need to redefine and reconceptualize the terms, patriotism and cosmopolitanism. It focuses on the relation of patriotism and cosmopolitanism as it has evolved, and the educational philosophical positions regarding the relation. To substantiate why it is useful to turn to (re)definitions and conceptions, the chapter discusses three educational philosophical positions on the relationship between cosmopolitan and patriotic concerns. John White regards cosmopolitanism and patriotism as compatible; Eamonn Callan defends the view that liberal patriotism can cover the normative ground of cosmopolitanism without the latter's supposedly utopian ideological baggage; and Sharon Todd focuses on the ostensibly internal contradictions of a cosmopolitanism that shifts away from patriotism.
