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Sounds of Silence Breaking
Women, Autobiography, Curriculum
Häftad, 2005
419 kr
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Janet L. Miller is one of the most important and influential curriculum theorists of our time. Sounds of Silence Breaking presents a broad range of her writing from the last two decades. This book contains portraits of self-complicating work that disrupt unitary and normative conceptions of women, …
Talmud, Curriculum, and The Practical
Joseph Schwab and the Rabbis
Av Alan A. Block, William F. Pinar
Häftad, 2004
416 kr
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This book explores the seminal curriculum work of Joseph Schwab in the light of a Rabbinic Judaism to which Schwab did not – even, perhaps, could not – refer, but which Alan Block asserts might be central to a fuller understanding of Schwab’s prescriptions for ‘The Practical’. Using the language …
Chaos, Complexity, Curriculum, and Culture
A Conversation
Av William E. Jr. Doll, M. Jayne Fleener m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
431 kr
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Although the fields of chaos and complexity are important in a number of disciplines, they have not yet been influential in education. This book remedies this dilemma by gathering essays by authors from around the world who have studied and applied chaos and complexity theories to their teaching. …
Call from the Stranger on a Journey Home
Curriculum in a Third Space
Av Hongyu Wang
Häftad, 2004
395 kr
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This book is a cross-cultural, gendered study of both self and curriculum. Initiating a conversation between and among Michel Foucault, Confucius, and Julia Kristeva, it searches for a new (third) cultural and psychic space of transformation and creativity. Weaving together philosophy, …
Authority to Imagine
The Struggle toward Representation in Dissertation Writing
Av Noreen B. Garman, Maria Piantanida
Häftad, 2006
395 kr
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In this book, scholar-practitioners offer alternatives to the traditional five-chapter thesis format. As authors of meritorious and award-winning dissertations, they provide insights into the challenging process of crafting interpretive methods of dissertation inquiry. In addition, they relate …
Provocations
Sylvia Ashton-Warner and Excitability in Education
Av Judith P. Robertson, Cathryn McConaghy
Häftad, 2006
332 kr
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No twentieth-century woman/teacher has provoked as much interest and perplexity as Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1908-1984). Her life reveals the fascinating dilemmas of classroom erotics, the dangers of intimacy in teaching and learning, the difficult and ambiguous nature of post-heterosexual attachments …
Synoptic Text Today and Other Essays
Curriculum Development after the Reconceptualization
Av William F. Pinar, William F. Pinar
Häftad, 2006
322 kr
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Synoptic textbooks have played a major role in the intellectual advancement of U.S. curriculum studies. William F. Pinar argues for a new synoptic text, summarizing recent and relevant research in the academic disciplines toward the subjective and social reconstruction of the public sphere that is …
Curriculum Spaces
Discourse, Postmodern Theory and Educational Research
Av Lisa J. Cary
Häftad, 2006
472 kr
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Historically, moves and counter-moves to define «curriculum» have occurred within highly contested terrain. This book studies curriculum as a discursively produced historically, socially, politically and economically inscribed epistemological space. This epistemological approach to studying the …
Eugenics and Education in America
Institutionalized Racism and the Implications of History, Ideology, and Memory
Av Ann Winfield
Häftad, 2007
428 kr
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Education in America was designed to organize, classify, and sort students according to a definition of ability and human worth provided by a racialized scientism known as eugenics – an ideology whose ultimate goal was the establishment of a superior White race. Eugenicists targeted entire ethnic …
Curriculum of Difficulty
Narrative Research in Education and the Practice of Teaching
Häftad, 2006
395 kr
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Describing a new narrative research approach, this book focuses on difficulty in teaching practices, particularly at the site of the professional teaching self. A thoughtful approach to narrative research is foundationally constructed through the use of thirteen original stories. Leah C. Fowler …
This Corner of Canaan
Curriculum Studies of Place and the Reconstruction of the South
Av Reta Ugena Whitlock, William F. Pinar
Häftad, 2007
310 kr
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No region has more distinct images of place than the South. This Corner of Canaan: Curriculum Studies of Place & the Reconstruction of the South makes a unique contribution to studies of curriculum and place, linking the particularities of Southern culture to social concerns of curriculum theory. …
Curriculum and the Cultural Body
Av Stephanie Springgay, Debra Freedman
Häftad, 2007
410 kr
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Curriculum and the Cultural Body extends the discussion of body knowledge by attending to the unspoken questions and practices in education that silence, conceal, and limit bodies. The collection of essays exemplifies a new genre of interdisciplinary writing, drawing on such diverse discourses as …
Queering Straight Teachers
Discourse and Identity in Education
Av Nelson M. Rodriguez, William F. Pinar
Häftad, 2007
471 kr
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Much of the focus of anti-homophobic/anti-heterosexist educational theory, curriculum, and pedagogy has examined the impact of homophobia and heterosexism on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) students and teachers. Such a focus has provided numerous theoretical and pedagogical …
Bringing Memory Forward
Storied Remembrance in Social Justice Education with Teachers
Av Teresa Strong-Wilson, William F. Pinar
Häftad, 2007
701 kr
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Bringing Memory Forward looks at the application of the method of currere to storied formation. Research tells us that white teachers are among the most recalcitrant of learners when it comes to challenging their own memories and experiences of privilege and race. This book examines how white …
Queering Straight Teachers
Discourse and Identity in Education
Av Nelson M. Rodriguez, William F. Pinar
Inbunden, 2007
1194 kr
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Much of the focus of anti-homophobic/anti-heterosexist educational theory, curriculum, and pedagogy has examined the impact of homophobia and heterosexism on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) students and teachers. Such a focus has provided numerous theoretical and pedagogical …
Autobiography of a Democratic Nation at Risk
The Currere of Culture and Citizenship in the Post-9/11 American Wilderness
Av JoVictoria Nicholson-Goodman
Häftad, 2009
362 kr
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Expanding William F. Pinar’s notion of autobiography from an individual to a national scale, this book takes the reader on an inner journey to explore the fragmented condition of the post-9/11 American national psyche. It excavates the many layers of the emerging social context within which …
Life Writing and Literary Métissage as an Ethos for Our Times
Av Erika Hasebe-Ludt, Cynthia Chambers m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
419 kr
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This book introduces literary métissage as a way to research, teach, and live ethically «with all our relations» in our precarious times. The authors theorize and perform literary métissage through the praxis of life writing, braiding their autobiographical texts, in various (mixed) genres, into …
Pedagogical Encounters
Av Bronwyn Davies, Susanne Gannon
Häftad, 2009
391 kr
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Pedagogical Encounters demonstrates how learning spaces that are ethical, responsive, and transformable can enable students and teachers to open toward new ways of being in the world. Through collective biography, ethnography, and arts-based research, the authors – educators with experience in …
Re-Theorizing Discipline in Education
Problems, Politics, and Possibilities
Av Zsuzsanna Millei, Tom G. Griffiths m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
419 kr
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For over a century, teachers, parents, and school leaders have lamented a loss of ‘discipline’ in classrooms. Caught between guidance approaches on the one hand and a call for zero tolerance on the other, current debates rarely venture beyond the terrain of implementation strategies. This book aims …
Global Citizenship Education in Post-Secondary Institutions
Theories, Practices, Policies- Foreword by Indira V. Samarasekera
Av Lynette Shultz, Ali A. Abdi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1131 kr
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Drawing on critical pedagogy, post-colonial analysis, hermeneutic interpretation, and reconceptualist curriculum frameworks, the twenty chapters in this edited collection address, from interrelated perspectives, a gap in the scholarly literature on the theory, practice, and policy of global …
Queer Bodies
Sexualities, Genders, and Fatness in Physical Education
Av Heather Sykes, William F. Pinar
Inbunden, 2010
971 kr
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This book brings together three areas of current public debate – sexuality, gender, and obesity – that will be of interest to curriculum workers, critical educators, physical educators, and professionals working in the areas of health, recreation, and sport. The book provides a critical examination …
Curriculum Studies Gone Wild
Bioregional Education and the Scholarship of Sustainability
Inbunden, 2011
1539 kr
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This book explores the intersections between curriculum studies and sustainability. Recognizing that a bioregion is our «life place» and that curriculum studies is the interdisciplinary study of lived experience, this book engages in scholarship grounded in advancing ecological stewardship. By …
Deleuze and Collaborative Writing
An Immanent Plane of Composition
Av Jonathan Wyatt, Ken Gale m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
416 kr
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This book is a passionate engagement with Gilles Deleuze and collaborative writing, in which four writers explore together the insights that Deleuze has contributed to the topic. This powerful and complex text, which will appeal to scholars within qualitative inquiry, investigates the question of …
Heart of Wisdom
Life Writing as Empathetic Inquiry
Av Cynthia Chambers, Erika Hasebe-Ludt m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
505 kr
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This anthology explores life writing as a mode of educational inquiry, one where students and teachers may get a «heart of wisdom» as they struggle with the tensions and complexities of learning and teaching in challenging contemporary circumstances. Contributors write first-person creative …
Heart of Wisdom
Life Writing as Empathetic Inquiry
Av Cynthia Chambers, Erika Hasebe-Ludt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
3158 kr
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This anthology explores life writing as a mode of educational inquiry, one where students and teachers may get a «heart of wisdom» as they struggle with the tensions and complexities of learning and teaching in challenging contemporary circumstances. Contributors write first-person creative …
Auto/biography & Pedagogy
Memory & Presence in Teaching
Häftad, 2013
487 kr
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In the tradition of educational narrative inquiry, this book explores diverse ways of thinking, writing and theorizing from auto/biographic experience, in language that is rooted in practice yet challenges the authoritative discourses of educational policy, theory and research. The book moves from …
Curriculum and the Aesthetic Life
Hermeneutics, Body, Democracy, and Ethics in Curriculum Theory and Practice
Häftad, 2012
489 kr
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Curriculum and the Aesthetic Life brings together over 20 years of scholarly work by dancer, educator, and scholar Donald S. Blumenfeld-Jones on the intersection of curriculum theory and practice with aesthetics, ethics, and hermeneutic inquiry, focusing on the body and emotions and the theory and …
Happiness, Hope, and Despair
Rethinking the Role of Education
Häftad, 2015
466 kr
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In the Western world it is usually taken as given that we all want happiness, and our educational arrangements tacitly acknowledge this. Happiness, Hope, and Despair argues, however, that education has an important role to play in deepening our understanding of suffering and despair as well as …
Happiness, Hope, and Despair
Rethinking the Role of Education
Inbunden, 2015
1670 kr
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In the Western world it is usually taken as given that we all want happiness, and our educational arrangements tacitly acknowledge this. Happiness, Hope, and Despair argues, however, that education has an important role to play in deepening our understanding of suffering and despair as well as …
Framing Peace
Thinking about and Enacting Curriculum as «Radical Hope»
Häftad, 2014
479 kr
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The language of frames suggests the need to rethink self and other in fostering ethical relationships as a foundation for peaceful existence. Educational writers and practitioners from many parts of the world, including New York, Denver, Minneapolis, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Israel, and Canada offer …
