Journal of Curriculum Theorizing articles from September 2006

Journal of Curriculum Theorizing archives from September 2006

Minimalism: repeating the hours in the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing.(Philip Glass' music)(Editorial)
September 22, 2006... Philip Glass is a scandal in the classical music world. He publishes too much. His music is not intellectual enough. Over and over the same chordal progressions do not count as music. Glass is not a composer. Glass cannot write an opera or...

The fire inside: a critical meditation on the importance of freedom dreams.(Viewpoint essay)
September 22, 2006... In the fall of 1985, I went off to college where I had the good fortune to meet many fascinating people, but none more captivating than Roni, Durban, and Abner, three South African students, each with his own stirring story of exile. I was...

"The land is the best teacher I have ever had": places as pedagogy for precarious times (1).(Viewpoint essay)
September 22, 2006... Since the fallout from September 11, 2001, curriculum studies in Canada has become more concerned with education and empire, and pedagogy in times of war. My concern is that without memory, without history we might imagine that empire and...

"What nature allows the jealous laws forbid": the cases of Myrrha and Ennis del Mar.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Long before Freud formulated a basic distinction between civilization and its discontents (1930/1961), Ovid wrote his Metamorphoses as a protest against the state and its social laws. Published in the eighth year of the Common Era (8 C.E.), The...

Where does the world go when schooling is about schooling? Talk presented to the school of Education, Louisiana State University, March 17, 2005.(Speech)
September 22, 2006... Throughout this talk I will use the language of phenomenology to interrupt the language of schooling, to get back to the things themselves, you might say. (1) As I make this choice of this language for this talk, I must tell you that I am...

Jacque Lacan as queer theorist: is there a 'beyond' to identification politicis in education?(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Pre-Facing the Situation Identity politics remains the dominant discourse in postmodern societies despite its many limitations. Historically, such a stance has been justified by the often quoted, but highly misunderstood concept "strategic...

"Youth demands images for its imagination and for forming its memory".(Viewpoint essay)
September 22, 2006... I It is necessary that a man should dwell with solicitude on, and cleave with affection to, the things which he wishes to remember.--Thomas Aquinas, paraphrasing the Ad Herennium (cited in Yates 1974, 75) I've recently been reading...

Under an Owl Moon: Topos and Abundance in Jardine's Ecopedagogy.(David Jardine)
September 22, 2006... Preamble I first met David Jardine in 1993 as an undergraduate student at the University of Calgary. At the time, I was enrolled in a required course entitled "Methods in Early Childhood Education." Having heard that this class was...

Sweet thoughts of reverie: rereading AERA Conference Programs, 1974-2006.(American Educational Research Association)(Viewpoint essay)
September 22, 2006... As I sat and listened to an extraordinary assortment of paper presentations at the April 2006 AERA Annual Meeting, I could not help but notice the many conference denizens who spent their time multi-tasking throughout the sessions, listening to...

Deconstruction and the Philosophy of Chilhood.
September 22, 2006... Philosophy consists of offering reassurance to children. That is, if one prefers, of taking them out of childhood, of forgetting about the child, or, inversely, but by the same token, of speaking first and foremost for that little boy within...

Beyond the binary: the cyclical nature of identity in education.(Viewpoint essay)
September 22, 2006... The child is... both beginning and end, an initial and a terminal creature. The initial creature existed before man [sic]... and the terminal creature will be when man is not.--C. G. Jung For the past few decades, educational theorists...