Journal of Curriculum Theorizing articles from December 2006

Journal of Curriculum Theorizing archives from December 2006

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

Poetry on MTV? Slam and the poetics of popular culture.(Essay)
December 22, 2006... New York City's first-ever "Teen Slam" took place in April 1999. Thirty high-school aged poets competed in a mock-Olympic war of words, each poet's performance ranked on a scale of 1 to 10 by judges picked from the audience. In keeping with the...

Pressing buttons.
December 22, 2006... My Welsh stepmother would instruct, "Press Button B" when I shouted from one room to another. Yelling, like chewing with my mouth open, was rude. "Button B" was the button in the red call box, in the British Isles of an era long before now....

Plan B.(Personal account)
December 22, 2006... Plan B So I'm not a famous writer, which is what I always knew I would be. But at least I teach the novels and poems of famous writers, to students who may not spend a lot of energy dwelling on the scarlet letter's many shaded meanings, or...

Of yearbooks and (slam) poetry.
December 22, 2006... FRHJ-Ed Werner Class of 1982 Quakertown Community High School The People are suffering, and are likely to suffer more; where is the poet who is the one [person] needful to rouse the nation to a sense of duty and inspire the people with...

Yearbook discourse in/ex-clusion: excavating identity and memory.(Essay)
December 22, 2006... You are a super sweet girl and a lot of fun. It was so fun sitting next to you in English. You are cute and nice. Thanks for the memories you pot smoker. In this article we excavate the meanings of our past identities,...

On knowledge, science, and epistemological postmodernity.(Essay)
December 22, 2006... We are coursing through the vicissitudes of a new millennium where epistemological certainty is no longer taken for granted, and yet, we must still have some empirical and conceptual foundations upon which to build knowledge after the paradigm...

A dialogue: on knowledge, the ethics of evaluation, and techno-epistemological postmodernity.(Essay)
December 22, 2006... Knowledge structures as "moments of learning" are the minimal parameters of what we know that legitimize knowledge. (1) Not only because the reality of a temporal disjunction engenders liminal perspectives on knowledge, but because the nature...