Journal of Curriculum Theorizing articles

Recent articles from Journal of Curriculum Theorizing

The Vertical Hour: curriculum theory as theater.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2006... David Hare's (2006) Broadway play, The Vertical Hour turns on this: In combat medicine, there's this moment... after a disaster, after a shooting--there's this moment, the vertical hour, when you can actually be of some use. (qtd., David Finkle, 2006) The play is...

Curriculum and the geographic cure.(Personal account)
December 22, 2006... One cannot build the house of the self to suit or kill the mother. One must detach. --Mary Aswell Doll, Like Letters in Running Water In 1969, a few months before my 15th birthday, I shut the bathroom door and very meticulously cut my wrists with a razor blade. The desire to actually...

Teaching with many acts: curriculum as theatre.
December 22, 2006... Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. --Russell Banks Circus as Prologue All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And on man in...

Invoking 'fear' studies.
December 22, 2006... Introduction: A Little Intimate Intertext 'Intertext' reminds us that between the formal texts of curriculum is another kind of life, the life that mediates, announces, repudiates, or cajoles curriculum formalities. This is the life that lies 'in-between' explicit...

Learning by heart: a poetics of research.(Essay)
December 22, 2006... All the questions I need to ask; the stories I have yet to hear. The heart's two chambers--everything I most desire, everything I most fear. (Keefer 291) What touched the human heart and intellect a thousand years ago, a decade ago, will touch them again. What is current is ancient. There...