Full Description
Within the context of recent, and ongoing, plural pandemics such as COVID-19 up/ending lives, social and racial chaos and catastrophe, political pressures, and economic convulsions, The Kaleidoscope of Lived Curricula: Learning Through a Confluence of Crises offers a journey through a collection of scholarly reflective creative pieces--stories of lived curricula. Like a kaleidoscope filled with loose pieces of simple colored glass and objects transforming into an infinite variety of beautiful forms and patterns with the slightest turn, the collection of pieces in this book reflect images of the sky that nurtures life; sun that illuminates understanding; earth that shifts and grounds us; fire that is primal, intending to spark and extend curricular and pedagogical conversations and understandings.
This book provides a lens through which to observe and experience how plural pandemics shifted the lived curricula--the colored glass and objects in the lives of others--to surface, contextualize, confront, and curate challenges, as well as celebrate the courageous and elevate and empower marginalized groups to relate, learn, and heal through stories of lived curricula.
This beautiful collection brings readers to an awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the lived curricula unlike they have ever experienced before.
Contents
Introduction.
Part I. Sky.
Chapter 1. White Noise; Ferial G. Pearson.
Chapter 2. Remembering Intergenerational Knowledge Though Practices of Eco-Literacy: A Curriculum Of Poetic Inquiry To Inspire Mental Health; Andrejs Kulnieks.
Chapter 3. Lived Experiences of a Wife, Mother, Grandmother, and Educator During a Global Pandemic; Armandina Thomas.
Chapter 4. A Teacher's Thoughts at 3 AM; Sarrah J. Grubb.
Chapter 5. Being a Mother in/and the Pandemic: The Democratic Challenge of Zoom Teaching; Kelsey Benson.
Chapter 6. Coping During Multiple Crises: Performative Spaces in Teacher Education; J. Scott Baker.
Chapter 7. Resisting Conformity Through Art; Kathy Bussert-Webb.
Chapter 8. Someone Smells Like Poop: Stories of Mothering While Being an Academic; Eunice Lerma, Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto, Karin Lewis, and Vejoya Viren.
Chapter 9. The Triumph of Love; Folake Elizabeth Adelakun.
Part II. Sun.
Chapter 10. Thinking Spatially: A Shift in Modality Due to COVID-19 and the Students Who Remain Disconnected; Jason E. Titus.
Chapter 11. Found Poems and Imagery of Physical and Social Dis/Connections in Inclusive Education During a Pandemic; Melissa Cain and Louise Gwenneth Phillips.
Chapter 12. Scholar Participant Phantasmagoria: A Creative Reflection on Research Under Crisis; S. Gavin Weiser and Linsay DeMartino.
Chapter 13. Through the Looking Glass: A Professor's Pandemic Journey Down the Rabbit Hole of Reddit; Mychelle Hadley Smith.
Chapter 14. Conversations, Performance-Based Learning, and Meaning Making: Understanding the Pandemic Through Philosophical Performance; Sheetal Digari, Sijin Yan, and Patrick Slattery.
Chapter 15. Transcending and Transforming: Teaching and Learning in the Time of COVID 19; Kate E. O'Hara.
Chapter 16. Relational Teaching During a Pandemic: A Conversation Across Theories in Practice; Alicia Bitler, Ebtissam Oraby, and Kimberly Sloan.
Chapter 17. In Defense of a Place Called School: Aesthetics-as-Praxis in Times of Crisis; Morna McDermott McNulty.
Chapter 18. Workforce Economic Development Education Structures: When Administrative Crisis Leadership Makes a Difference in the Whole Organization; Melissa Sadler-Nitu and Juan F. Solis III.
Part III. Earth.
Chapter 19. La Cuarentena: A Personal Reflection on How COVID-19 Changed My Path; Cynthia Villarreal Cantu.
Chapter 20. Examined Lives: 10 Reflections on Our Pandemic Pedagogies; Margaret Clark and Rebecca Buchanan.
Chapter 21.¿Cómo llegué aquí? Latina, educada, educadora, bilingüe; Gloria Garcia.
Chapter 22. Living in Alignment: A Reflection on Vocational Calling; Dana M. Malone.
Chapter 23. Emotion(less): A Reflection on the Intersection of Lived Experiences, Screens and Laughter; Tara Lawson-Harris.
Chapter 24. Curriculum as a Vehicle for Societal Change: Reflecting on a Career Teaching in the Canadian Arctic; Tanya L. Saxby.
Chapter 25. COVID-19, Murder, and Multicultural Connections: My Dream Job; Michelle L. Knaier.
Chapter 26. What is the First Thing You Will Do? S. Pettus-Wakefield.
Part IV. Fire.
Chapter 27. Together in This Untogetherness; Samuel Jaye Tanner.
Chapter 28. The Courageous Imagination: Debating Politics and Religion; Eva Rose B. Washburn-Repollo.
Chapter 29. Yo no me se vender, yo no me quiero vender: Latina Women Navigating Personal and Professional Lives; Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto, Freyca Calderon-Berumen, and Karla O'Donald.
Chapter 30. Learning to Live an Anti-Racist Curriculum: A Non-Indigenous 'Asian' Australian Teacher's Asiancrit Autoethnographic Account; Aaron Teo.
Chapter 31. The Kaleidoscope of Blackness: A Lived Experience of An African American Art Educator; Indira Bailey.
Chapter 32. Materializing Power of Critical Black Pedagogy: Educating within the Panopticon; Janelle Grant.
Chapter 33. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity in a Time of Crises: A Reflection on Educators' Perspectives of Critical Theory and Social Justice Issues; Araba A. Z. Osei-Tutu, Razak Dwomoh, Alankrita Chhikara, Lili Zhou, Stephanie Oudghiri, and Troy Bell.
Chapter 34. Dear Other Child: Three Letters from Lockdown; Julia Persky.
About the Contributors.
