Journal of Curriculum Theorizing articles from March 2005

Journal of Curriculum Theorizing archives from March 2005

Woods, words, and witnesses: curriculum as public text.
March 22, 2005... In this issue of JCT, The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, we begin in the company of Henry David Thoreau (2000). Thoreau remarks, I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of...

More than meets the eye: the under side of the Corporate Culture of higher education and possibilities for a new feminist critique (1).
March 22, 2005... Introduction Feminist scholars and social activists have, over the past decade, noted the world wide antifeminist backlash aimed at clawing back the gains toward equity and social participation that women had made over the thirty years...

Power and resistance: insurgent spaces, Deleuze, and curriculum.
March 22, 2005... Even though common use of the term may suggest the opposite--that resistance is a response or reaction--resistance is primary with respect to power. --Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, Multitude. It is alarming and...

Researching liminal English: identity, resistance, and the "strange" in TESOL.(teaching english as a second or other language)
March 22, 2005... Can we now perhaps find the place where strangeness was present, the place where a person succeeded in setting himself free? --Paul Celan Background We and our children are living at the point in human history ...

Post-colonialism and the reconceptualization of Korean curriculum studies.
March 22, 2005... I. Introduction Curricularists' thinking is evolving from a focUS on curriculum as a phenomenon of schooling to curriculum as a more pervasive social and cultural phenomenon. As a result, the curriculum field has largely...

Digital aesthetics.
March 22, 2005... The digital image is all around us in the most obvious places. Every time we enter into the movie theater or turn on the DVD player, the digital image is present. Vin Diesel that master of elocution and complex conversations would not have a...

Disrupting the subject: Julian of Norwich and embodied knowing.
March 22, 2005... Julian of Norwich (1342-1413) the medieval English mystic and anchoress was a profound and radical thinker. Her book the Divine Revelations of Love, written in 1373, refuses any linear or quick reading. Meanings are not in her text, but in the...

Knocking the corners off.
March 22, 2005... Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I present two images for you, so you may see for yourselves that our success in Iraq is indeed that: the images speak for themselves. Image one: This one is on the cover of your morning paper, if you will...

Institutional readymades (?): a dada allegory.
March 22, 2005... Words, slogans, sentences, which were selected from daily newspapers and especially from advertisements in them, formed the basis of [Hugo Ball's cutup] poems in 1917... and curiously enough, the... inspired vocabules...

Considering the nature of the aesthetic through an imaginary letter excvhange.
March 22, 2005... Dear Reader: I propose to consider the nature of aesthetics through the perspectives of three contemporaries of early 20th century England (Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941, Clive Bell, 1881-1964, and Sylvia Gosse, 1881-1968), with claim to an...

The last gasp for democracy? Cultural studies and technoscience in the end times.
March 22, 2005... The latest election cycle is over. No more incessant smear campaigns, no more macho discussions over who should be proud of their purple hearts and who is fit for command. Now we are only left with serious questions. Can our democracy survive...

Last gasp: in with a bang and out with a virus.(apocalypse)
March 22, 2005... Introduction I just got your virus baby so sad to see you rot away what in the world is this peeling catch a breath and leave me seething It'll get you in the end, it's god's revenge Oh I know I'm getting...

Popular culture's hope and our engagement with science in a faltering democracy.
March 22, 2005... Paul was my student. Like any good student, Paul has developed his own identity as an academic. He has taken Michel Serres' words to heart when the French philosopher/scientist wrote that "formerly, the slave who took the noble child to school...

The pedagogical implications of popular (culture) science: reggae music, Vanilla Sky[TM] & Minority Report[TM] as poststructural scientific curriculum.
March 22, 2005... On a wild goose chase Laws of nature they just can't face Ambition is to mash up the place Who shall save the human race? These times of science and technology This world is an unconscious lavatory Using my people...