Journal of Curriculum Theorizing articles from March 2006

Journal of Curriculum Theorizing archives from March 2006

Erskine Caldwell, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, and curriculum: a dog day afternoon.
March 22, 2006... Pulling with his left hand and pushing with his right, Arch Gunnard docked the hound's tail as quickly and as easily as if he were cutting a willow switch in the pasture to drive the cows home with. The dog sprang forward with...

Disconceptualizing curriculum: is there a next in the generational text?
March 22, 2006... New collective assemblages of enunciation are beginning to form an identity out of fragmentary ventures, at times risky initiatives, trial and error experiments; different ways of seeing and of making the world, different ways...

Postmodern moments in curriculum theory: the logic and paradox of dissensus.
March 22, 2006... Introduction If we acknowledge something like a postmodern turn, as Jameson (1981) and Lyotard (1984) do, then we must foreground the constructedness of culture and its manifestations in curriculum studies. Since at least the early 1970s,...

A letter from Derrida: of pedagogy and difference.(Jacques Derrida )
March 22, 2006... If there were no fold, or if the fold had a limit somewhere--a limit other than itself as a mark, margin, or march (threshold, limit, or border)--there would be no text. But if the text does not, to the letter, exist, then...

Grounding biological and cultural diversity in a postmodern world.
March 22, 2006... From this window seat, I can watch the large woodpecker as he circles the tree drilling holes in search of insects. I'm told that these birds are a natural enemy to the Pine Bark Beetles that are infesting the Ponderosa Pine Forests around...

A curriculum of longing.
March 22, 2006... Encyclopedia of Desire Encyclopedia of desire multi-syllabic interrogating soul flesh love of desire for desire's sake. Keenly alive ruptured yearning Split crevices open seep in juices twirling mystery. Apple bound....

Rage in the interests of black self: curriculum theorizing as dangerous knowledge.
March 22, 2006... Introduction I first presented a version of this article at the Bergamo Conference in October of 2000. I shared a session with a scholar whose paper addressed some of the controversial public issues that led to the now infamous Bergamo...

Curriculum in deconstruction: a nostalgia for the future.
March 22, 2006... Postindustrial society exhibits signs of postmodern culture. Not only because the reality of a temporal disjunction between past and present engenders liminal perspectives on knowedge, but because the nature of episteme becomes redefined in...

Speaking as an alien: is a curriculum in a third space possible?
March 22, 2006... As an international person, every time I fill out any official form, I am reminded of my status: an alien. Studying and teaching in a foreign country as an alien, I position myself in "a third space" (Wang, 2004) which embraces contradictions,...

Whitman, Dewey, and a song for the occupation of teaching (1).(Walt Whitman, John Dewey)
March 22, 2006... A Song for occupations! In the labor of engines and trades and the labor of fields I find the developments, And find the eternal meanings. (Walt Whitman, p. 187) We live in a world that is more and more about the...