Full Description
The essays in this volume bring together leading-edge scholars to illuminate the work of William E. Doll, Jr., as a key curriculum thinker of global impact, and introduce his work and influence to new generations of scholars, teachers, and students of education. Drawing on their individual contexts, contributors cover a range of topics and themes, including engagement with pragmatism, the work of John Dewey, and the inclusion of post-modern, chaos, and complexity theories to education and curriculum. Advancing our understanding and conversation of existing problems and possibilities in education, this collection serves as both an homage to Doll and a call for action and consideration of what matters in education.
Contents
1. Introduction—From "The Echo of God's Laughter": The Generative and Generous Gifts of William E. Doll, Jr. to Curriculum Studies Part I: Of Influence, Inspiration, and Intellectual Adventure 2. Dynamics of a Scholarly Life: Conversational Complexity in Pursuit of the Mysterium Tremendum 3. Toward the Reenchantment of Curriculum: A Study on William Doll's Post-modern Curriculum Theory 4. Education as Liberating Experience: Bill Doll's Scholarship and Contested Legacies of Euro-American Curriculum Theories from Descartes Onwards 5. Thoroughly (Post-Modern) Billy 6. Travels with Bill in Search of America (and Beyond) Part II: Of Engagement, Immersion, and Transformative Experience 7. The . . . Readiness . . . To Be "All Ears" 8. Engaging Engaging: Topological Reflections Prompted by Bill Doll 9. Playful Engagement with Difference 10. A Recursive Path to Infinity Part III: Of Play, Praxis, and Pedagogical Grace 11. Learning the Play of Language: Hermeneutic Acts of Interpretation While Watching Bill Doll Dance 12. A Life with Bill Doll: A Journey in Praxis, Patience, and Play 13. An Extraordinary Pedagogical Figure: Bill Doll as a Susung 14. The Pedagogical Complexity of Story Part IV: Of Method, Mystery, and Visionary Magic 15. Circling the Known 16. An Ethics of Free Responsible Action: Examining Doll's Struggling With Spirituality 17. Addressing "Curriculum" as an Inspirited Letter 18. The Pedagogy of the King of Chaos in a Post-Modern Era Part V: Of School, Society, and the Sacred in Scholarly Tradition 19. Post-modern Curriculum: Reviving the Vision 20. Complex Conversations on Curriculum: Ghosts and the Five C's Revisited 21. "Wrestling" with Complexity: Bill Doll's "Dancing Curriculum" 22. Living Poetically: The Pedagogy of William E. Doll Jr. 23. Confronting Life and Death: Reflections on Living the Spirit of Education 24. Afterword
