Full Description
This book brings together some of the newest work in curriculum studies to explore central questions that swirl inside (and out) of the field: What counts as curriculum research? What procedures are considered legitimate for the production of knowledge? What forms shape the making of explanations? What constitutes proof? It forefronts work by curriculum theorists who are interested in looking at educational problems from a vantage point that questions current models of research--one that suggests adopting "lines of flight" or multiplicities that offer promise to disentangle curriculum theory from traditional research hierarchies and methods-driven dependence on formalities. In Expanding Curriculum Theory: Dis/positions and Lines of Flight: *The essays are connected by their shared concern for combining alternative methodologies, such as textual analysis, discourse theory, hermeneutics, and post-structuralism with perspectives on race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. *Disciplinary boundaries are blurred as curriculum theory is interwoven with cultural studies, political theory, psychoanalysis, dance, technology, and other fields.*To assist readers in understanding the various essays, as well as comparing, contrasting, and connecting them with each other, each chapter opens with a "Thinking Beyond" section. The questions posed are designed to make the text engaging and pedagogically friendly. By doing all this within an overall poststructural framework that encourages and demonstrates creativity, multidisciplinarity, and new lines of flight, this volume makes a unique contribution to expanding curriculum theory. It is a stimulating text for students, faculty, and researchers in the field.
Contents
ContentsDis/positions. W.M. Reynolds, To Touch the Clouds Standing on Top of a Maytag Refrigerator: Brand-Name Postmodernity and a Deleuzian "In-Between." D. Livingston, Wondering About a Future Generation: Identity Disposition Disposal, Recycling, and Creation in the 21st Century. K. Ferneding, The Discourse of Inevitability and the Forging of an Emergent Social Vision: Technology Diffusion and the Dialectic of Educational Reform Discourse. J.A. Webber, Beyond God the Unconscious: The Libidinal Politics of Spiritual Youth Movements in Schools. M. Morris, (Commentary by M.A. Doll)Stumbling Inside Dis/positions: The Un(home) of Education. D. McKnight, Curricula vita as a Call to a Vocation: Exploring a Puritan Way. D.S. Blumenfeld-Jones, Dance Curricula Then and Now: A Critical Historical-Hermeneutic Evaluation. A.P. Watkins, Learning From All of Life for All of Life: Getting an Education at Home--Precept on Precept, Line on Line. W.-S. Hwu, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Daignault: Understanding Curriculum as Difference and Sense. J.A. Webber, W.M. Reynolds, Afterword: Multiplicities and Curriculum Theory.
