Journal of Curriculum Theorizing articles from December 2005

Journal of Curriculum Theorizing archives from December 2005

Back up group: here comes the (post) reconceptualization.
December 22, 2005... There's an awful lot of talk about the Post-Reconceptualization lately. The question is, is it Post or (Post)? And what does ( ) signify? Are movements ever really (Post) after all? Perhaps they are merely (Post)? That is, this generation and...

Rethinking masculinity studies in the curriculum: so what do we do about Beowulf?
December 22, 2005... A high school English teacher once said to me, "Beowulf never fails with students, but it's down hill after that." The Old English Beowulf has been a standard text in the twelfth-grade English curriculum for many decades; it is a hallmark of a...

The following may eat: Part two.(Talmud )
December 22, 2005... In a previous paper, I dealt with the educational implications to be derived from an exploration of the Rabbis' discussions in Bava Metzia 87b-91b. There, the Rabbis explore the following law: Now the following [laborers] may eat [of that...

The fallacy of objectivity in educational research: scientism as neo-liberal ideology.
December 22, 2005... There are concerted attempts to promote scientifically-based research in contemporary education to the exclusion of other research paradigms. These efforts are reflected "in the No Child Left Behind Act and the reauthorization and...

A curriculum of mother-son plots on education's center stage.
December 22, 2005... What the society denied to the women of the nineteenth century was a vigorous, active motherhood. With one hand it took away the men and the children, and with the other it bestowed the cult of motherhood, replete with a...

Contradictions and tensions in the practice of masculinities in school: interrogating embodiment and 'good buddy talk'.
December 22, 2005... Introduction Masculinity, and gender more broadly, has been theorised as a series of performative and discursive acts (Butler, 1990) which are constituted contextually and culturally. Not only are masculinities enacted differently across...

Lessons of Poverty: Towards a Literacy of Survival.
December 22, 2005... By the time I entered kindergarten my family had been without a home, but not homeless, for a year. We lived in a church basement located in a small poor community in Eastern Kentucky and survived on what churchgoers generously provided. Both...

A Wittgenstein Philosophy on History and Culture: a discourse of "Broken Knowledge".
December 22, 2005... Introduction In this paper, I am attempting to engage in a discourse of broken knowledge. The concept of broken knowledge is derived from Francis Bacon's (1605) "philosophy of wonder." (1) Bacon proposed that human wondering about the...

Returning teaching and learning to its original complexity.
December 22, 2005... Keywords I have modelled this paper on Raymond Williams' (1976) idea of keywords. In his book Keywords, Williams offers a series of reflections on particular vocabulary. The book, according to Williams, is not a dictionary or a...

Hermeneutic Portraits: Caroline Zachry.
December 22, 2005... Introduction For this issue of the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing we return to an installment of "Hermeneutic Portraits," a series of biographical, autobiographical, and documentary narratives that explore historical and contemporary...

Fight club goes to school.
December 22, 2005... The question of what constitutes legitimate modes of inquiry has always been of concern to educational researchers looking for new ways to conceptualize issues. A relatively recent form of inquiry, arts-based educational research includes the...

History lessons and the manufacturing of significance: an Essay Review of S. G. Grant's History Lessons: Teaching, Learning, and Testing in U. S. High School Classrooms.
December 22, 2005... An Essay Review of S. G. Grant's History Lessons: Teaching, Learning, and Testing in U. S. High School Classrooms Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004 The field of history and social studies research has been recently blessed with...

"Class struggle": Marxism against postmodernism in educational theory.
December 22, 2005... "Postmodernism," as a loose collection of theoretical strategies, research methods, and political positions, has enjoyed a remarkably fast rise to prominence and a similarly remarkable range of influence within academia. Nearly every major...

The question of the question is the foreigner: towards an economy of hospitality.
December 22, 2005... Isn't the question of the foreigner [etranger] a foreigner's question? Coming the foreigner, from abroad [etranger]? --Jacques Derrida, Of Hospitality (1) The Law of World Citizenship Shall be Limited to Conditions of ...