Journal of Curriculum Theorizing articles from September 2005

Journal of Curriculum Theorizing archives from September 2005

Doubt: what broadway can teach educators.
September 22, 2005... Spring semester always seems soooo long. I cannot recall what I was reading at the time, but something spoke to me of big cities and the longing for home. For me, home will always be the big city. But I live in Slooowvannah Georgia where...

The following may eat: Part one.(elementary school students last day celebrations)
September 22, 2005... 1 At the end of each semester, my dear friend and colleague, Cowboy Mitch, (1) offers his class a choice. Standing before the classroom, he lifts his arms and opens his hands, palms up, and assumes the image of a balance scale. Bending to...

Capacity and currere.(archetypal psychology is the basic thing for school children)
September 22, 2005... For archetypal psychology, the vertical direction refers to interiority as a capacity within all things.--James Hillman (1985, 29) Titania waked, and straightway loved an ass.--William Shakespeare (MSND 3.2) My first epigraph (above)...

Chicken Soup for the science fiction soul: breaking the genre lock in the high school literacy experience.(Chicken Soup for the Left Behind)(Excerpt)
September 22, 2005... Trying to file a missing person's report did not go well: Police: Well sir, did your wife indicate she might be going away? Me: She did mention something about it. Police: Did she say where she might be going? Me: Only that I...

Rejecting mediocrity and the politics of domestication.
September 22, 2005... Laying Down Invisible Boundaries In the field of education, we tend to focus on three types of narratives: Narratives of despair (which usually describe deficit models of what one particular individual or group[s] of individuals is lacking...

Melancholia to mourning: commemorative representations of slave dwellings at South Louisiana historical plantations.
September 22, 2005... Introduction In honor of Labor Day 2002, Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Blanco made an announcement that was carried by local media throughout the state publicizing the ongoing archeological research at the slave quarters site at...

The politics of freedom: a Spinozian critique.
September 22, 2005... We have been taught the holy doctrine that democracy lies in the rule of law, that the general interest "sublimates" particular interests, that the constitutional functions of the State are responsible before the generality, and so many other...

Facing aggression in the pedagogical relationship: lessons from fencing and psychoanalysis.
September 22, 2005... When I was a young boy growing up in Brooklyn, I learned from my parents what was acceptable and unacceptable in our home. One message I received among many was clear: anger, yelling, fighting, and even disagreements were forbidden. Voices were...

Abstract Expressionism and imaginative curriculum.
September 22, 2005... Abstract Expressionism of the 1940s and 50s created a revolution in the visual art world through an exploration of the subconscious, new creative approaches to painting, and a reliance on spontaneity-the very things that can breathe life into...

Childhood and cultural studies: section introduction.
September 22, 2005... For 15 to 20 years the field of Early Childhood Education has engaged with postmodern, poststructural, feminist identity issues. Many of us would even propose that the field has followed the lead of the curriculum theorists toward...

Decentering Anglo-American curricular power in early childhood education: learning, culture, and "child development" in higher education coursework.
September 22, 2005... The concerns of this paper regard the content of coursework for Masters degree students in Early Childhood Education in Norway. This has developed from a local site of otherness to Anglo-American practices and theories. By considering Norwegian...