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The research uses a unique longitudinal and cross-national primary source of data – high school civics, history, and social studies textbooks published since 1970.  \nTextbooks are central to socializing particular identities because they define legitimate knowledge and desirable social attributes, and also communicate privileged concepts of national or global citizenship. In this way, they can exacerbate national and sub-national ethnic and cultural conflicts, or help to support the development of cosmopolitan identities. I find a broad increase in cosmopolitan emphases of universalism and diversity in civic education curricula in much of the world. However, even within cosmopolitan theories there are divergent views on the potential implications of a more universal and diverse notion of citizenship for society.  \nIn the wake of World War II, international attention turned to the detrimental role of education  \nsystems, and especially textbooks, in promoting hyper-nationalism. Social science curricula atthe time emphasized culturally homogenous citizens of unitary national states, often demonizing and stereotyping the ‘other’. Early work by the United Nations and many bilateral commissions aimed to reform school curricula with the goal of eradicating bias from society. Such reforms reflected a broader and fundamental change in notions of citizenship – from focusing on the construction of a unitary national identity to embracing cosmopolitan ideals of protecting universal human rights and the diversity of special groups such as women or minorities.  \nTextbooks are central to efforts to socialize particular views of citizenship because they define legitimate knowledge and desirable social attributes, and also communicate preferred concepts of identity. In this way, they can exacerbate national and sub-national ethnic and cultural conflicts, or help to support the development of cosmopolitan identities. This study examines how far education systems worldwide have progressed from depicting society as rooted in a homogenous, bounded nation-state towards cosmopolitan emphases on diversity and human equality using a unique longitudinal and cross-national primary source of data – high school civics, history, and social studies textbooks published since 1970. I find a broad increase in cosmopolitan emphases in civic education curricula in much of the world. In the following sections I outline the existing research that frames this study, describe my data and methods, present findings, and discuss differing cosmopolitan interpretations of the results that lead to divergent implications for society. One view argues cosmopolitanism is fundamentally beneficial, and the ultimate fulfillment of cosmopolitan benefits will be best realized through the creation of a world state. A contrasting cosmopolitan perspective argues it is the absence of a world state that enables global social and cultural integration to flourish, and regards cosmopolitan trends as creating opportunities for evil as well as good.  \nBackground  \nIn recent years many have noted a resurgence of attention to cosmopolitanism, often attributing this rise to the confluence of globalization, decolonization, migration and multiculturalism (See, for example, the thorough discussion in Chapter 1 of Vertovec & Cohen, 2002) . These global  \n© 2009 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Current Issues in Comparative Education, Vol. 12(1): 33-44.  \nP. Bromley  \ntrends maybe particularly amplified in the wake of World War II, following the de-legitimization of nationalism (Kaplan, 2006) and an ","cbCainhNZW9yOQrW","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainhNZW9yOQrW","pdf",280843,12,"English","# Background\n## Post–World War II shifts and textbook reforms\n## Universalism and world citizenship\n# Data and methods\n# Findings\n# Discussion and cosmopolitan interpretations","[{\"question\":\"What source materials does the study use to analyze civic education trends?\",\"answer\":\"It uses a longitudinal, cross-national primary dataset: high school civics, history, and social studies textbooks published since 1970.\"},{\"question\":\"What major finding does the study report about cosmopolitan emphasis?\",\"answer\":\"It finds a broad increase in cosmopolitan emphases on universalism and diversity in civic education curricula across much of the world.\"},{\"question\":\"How can textbooks influence citizenship and social conflict?\",\"answer\":\"Textbooks define legitimate knowledge and desirable social attributes, communicate concepts of national or global citizenship, and can either intensify ethnic and cultural conflicts or support the development of cosmopolitan identities.\"}]","Cosmopolitanism in Civic Education - Exploring Cross-National Trends, 1970-2008 | PDF",1792090960]