Journal of Curriculum Theorizing articles from June 2006

Journal of Curriculum Theorizing archives from June 2006

The cultural studies of education: introduction to a special issue of Journal of Curriculum Theorizing.
June 22, 2006... How not to speak, today, of the university?... it is impossible, now more than ever, to dissociate the work we do, within one discipline or several, from a reflection on the political and institutional conditions of that work. --Jacques...

Shoot the elephant: antagonistic identities, neo-Marxist nostalgia, and the remorselessly vanishing pasts.
June 22, 2006... Say Cockney fire shooter. We bus' gun Cockney say tea leaf. We just say sticks man You know dem have a wedge while we have corn Say Cockney "Be my first son' we just say Gwaan! --Paul Gilroy, There Aint No Black in the Union Jack, p. 196...

The foundations/ cultural studies nexus: an emerging movement in the education field.
June 22, 2006... [T]he future of social foundations of education is already intertwined with cultural studies in education. (Steve Tozer, 2001, p. 304) This essay situates Cultural Studies in Education (CSE) as "in-the-making" (Ockman, 2000). Its tale is...

Cultural curriculum studies, multiplicity, and cinematic-machines.
June 22, 2006... It is time to recognize that the true tutors of our children are not schoolteachers or university professors but filmmakers, advertising executives, and pop culture purveyors. Disney does more than Duke, Spielberg outweighs Stanford, MTV trumps...

Relocating cultural studies into curriculum studies.
June 22, 2006... In this art of study, each component of culture has a part to play, and every component of art, literature, science, and thought can be seen as educational in a rigorous sense. --Robert McClintock (1971, 165) The disciplinary...

From Nerds to Napoleons: thwarting archetypical expectations in high school films.
June 22, 2006... "And the number one sign that you're not the most popular guy in school?" "#1? How the heck would I know? I'm like the coolest kid in school. Gosh!" --Jon Heder, appearing as Napoleon Dynamite on The Late Show with David Letterman ...

Economies of identity: cultural studies and a curriculum of making place (1).
June 22, 2006... This paper profiles research that developed out of an interest in youth, youth identity formation, and how people engage in the process of place-making (Massey, 1995). This project examines how students use the facilities of an after-school...

A hopeful curriculum: community, praxis, and courage.
June 22, 2006... Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Summer 2006 In his critical reflection on Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970), Paulo Freire proclaims in Pedagogy of Hope (1992), "I cannot understand human existence, and the struggle needed to improve it, apart...

Re-living dangerous memories: on-line journaling to interrogate spaces of "otherness" in a multicultural course.
June 22, 2006... Challenges, posed by Darling-Hammond (1997), require that schools in America do something they have never done before--that is educate all children. Building a system of schools that can educate people for contemporary society...

Disrupting the North/South binary: a deconstruction of two social studies textbooks' portrayal of the reconstruction era in America (1861-1877).
June 22, 2006... Introduction In American social studies textbooks, the chapters about the critical period between 1861-1877 in our nation's history often characterizes life in the United States dichotomously between the northern states and the southern...