Journal of Curriculum Theorizing articles from June 2005

Journal of Curriculum Theorizing archives from June 2005

Responding to the present: public/private practices and global identities.
June 22, 2005... A glance at the table of contents might suggest thematic disarray. Worldly encounters, passionate attachments to subjection, Chick-fil-A, the public good and "government," "thugs" and "gangstas," transnational queers, and globalized identities...

The American curriculum field and its worldly encounters.
June 22, 2005... When we ask another for recognition for ourselves, we are not asking for that other to see us as we are, as we have always been, as we were prior to the encounter. Rather, in the asking, we are already becoming something new,...

Heterosexuality and gender melancholy: unsettling passionate attachments to subjection (1).
June 22, 2005... Within and outside educational settings the heterosexual/homosexual binary continues to be sustained by those who identify as straight and those who identify as non-heterosexual. This binary tends to reinscribe the familiar "knowledge" that...

Would you like values with that? Chick-fil-A and character education.
June 22, 2005... "Character education" represents a long-standing staple of U.S.A. schools. From the "Old Deluder Satan" Law of 1647 to The New England Primer in the 18th century to McGuffey Readers from the late 1830s (and well into the 1920s), the idea of...

Schools and the public good: privatization, democracy, freedom, and "government" (1).
June 22, 2005... The movements to privatize American public education are justified and contested by renewed calls for the "public good." The public good, and its derivatives, the "common good" or the "public interest," are deemed to benefit from the...

"Ginas," "thugs," and "gangstas": young people's struggles to "become somebody" in working-class urban Canada.
June 22, 2005... Introduction So the street becomes the arena where the 'growing up' game is played out, a social space and time of apparent freedom from the more insidious forms of parental control and consent. Here the peer group...

Transnational/queer: narratives from the contact zone.
June 22, 2005... Back in the late 1980s, as a student teacher of English as a Second Language (ESL) to immigrants, refugees and international students in the United States, I was eager to read something, anything, to help me think through the intriguing...

The ambivalences and circulation of globalization and identities: sexualities, gender, and the curriculum.
June 22, 2005... Until working on this article, I had not thought about the ways in which both metaphorically and quite literally, I am a product of globalization. When my parents met in Jakarta, my mother was an executive secretary for an American firm located...