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About Thomas S. Popkewitz
- Thomas S.
- Popkewitz (born August 16, 1940) is an American curriculum theorist on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education.
- His studies are concerned with the knowledge or systems of reason that govern educational policy and research related to pedagogy and teacher education.
- His research includes histories of the present, ethnographic and comparative studies of national educational reforms in Asia, Europe, Latin America, Southern Africa, and the US.
- His book Cosmopolitanism and the Age of School Reform (2008) explores the systems of reason in pedagogy through historically examining the changing images and narratives of Enlightenment concerns with cosmopolitanism.
- He has written or edited approximately 30 books and 300 articles in journals and book chapters.
- Two of his books (Paradigms and Ideology in Educational Research and A Political Sociology of Educational Reform) have won awards for their contribution to educational studies.
- His work has been translated into twelve languages (Chinese, Danish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Portuguese, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish).
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