Full Description
In recent decades, TV has depicted schooling in wildly different ways. During this time, the field of Curriculum Studies has evolved with the generation and incorporation of different theories. This book puts those theories to work by providing examples of how they could be used to read scenes of schooling on TV through a series of short, accessible essays. How would Jean Anyon think of schooling and class relations in Diff'rent Strokes? What does a queer reading of Buffy The Vampire Slayer tell us about students' relationship to authority? What does a cartoon created by one of Hip Hop's most imaginative minds offer to burned-out teachers? The book also includes essays from "guest stars" (well-known scholars in the field) and several "commercial breaks" that provide additional resources for those interested in Curriculum Studies.
Guest stars are: Wayne Au, Denise Taliaferro Baszile, Esther Ohito, Rachel Talbert, Roozbeh Shirazi, Kate Strom and Boni Wozolek.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1 1979 - Reconceptualizing Curriculum as Much More Than a Technical Field: "Grange Hill" and William Pinar
2 1980 - Diff'rent Social Classes, Diff'rent Curriculum: "Diff'rent Strokes" and Jean Anyon
3 1981 - The Kids Aren't Alright (with Dominant Ideology): "The Facts of Life" and Michael Apple
4 1982 - "We Are a Powerful Bunch of Kids, You Know?": "Fame" and Maxine Greene
5 1983 - Where Does Radical Pedagogy Come From?: "Teachers Only" and Henry Giroux
6 1984 - Beware the Divorced Mother!: "Kate & Allie" and Sue Middleton
7 1985 - Lessons on Hard Work and Black Identity: "The Cosby Show" and Geneva Gay
8 1986 - In Today's Story ... We Will Sell You More Toys: Saturday Morning Cartoons and David Flinders, Nel Noddings, & Stephen Thornton
9 1987 - The Multicultural Rainbow in the Gritty Schoolyard: "21 Jump Street" and Christine Sleeter & Carl Grant
10 1988 - "Sex, In the Hands of Public Educators, Was Not a Pretty Thing": "The Wonder Years" and Michelle Fine
11 1989 - Cheating Ourselves from Feeling Empowered: "Homeroom" and Elizabeth Ellsworth
12 1990 - Family Matters (as Long as It Follows Eurocentric, Patriarchal Norms): "Family Matters" and Cameron McCarthy
13 1991 - Sorta Like That Spike Lee's Movie: "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" and Molefi Kete Asante
14 1992 - Learner-Centered Curriculum and the Private Lives of Students: "The Simpsons" and Linda Darling-Hammond & Jon Snyder
15 1993 - Embodied/Assumed/Expected Curriculum: "Boy Meets World" and Ted Aoki
16 1994 - A Curriculum of Seeing and Being Seen: "My So-Called Life" and Sonia Nieto
17 1995 - Critical Race Theory and the Power of Structural Analyses: "The Parent 'Hood" and Gloria Ladson-Billings & William F. Tate, IV
18 1996 - Beyond Other/Us: "Heartbreak High" and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco
19 1997 - De/Tracking Ability as Popularity: "Daria" and Jeannie Oakes, Amy Stuart Wells, Makeba Jones, & Amanda Datnow
20 1998 - Foreign in Wisconsin - Racial and Ethnic Erasures as Comedy: "That 70s Show" by very special guest star Roozbeh Shirazi
21 1999 - Buffy, Queer Love, and Surviving High School: "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" and Dennis Sumara & Brent Davis
22 2000 - Un/Becoming the Good Girl: "Freaks and Geeks" and Nancy Lesko
23 2000 (Part b) - "No way I'm accepting this ... insult." Red Pedagogy and an Indigenous Pedagogical Imagination: "King of the Hill" and Sandy Grande
24 2002 - Repetition and the Limits of Rational Pedagogies: "Boston Public" and Kevin Kumashiro
25 2003 - Scenes of Battling Difficult Knowledges: "Clone High" and Alicia Pitt & Deborah Britzman
26 2004 - Declassifying When Math Education Becomes Something Else Entirely: "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide" and Thomas Popkewitz
27 2005 - "School Is for Suckas": Reflecting on "The Boondocks" and the Curriculum of Hip Hop Culture by very special guest star Denise Taliaferro Baszile
28 2006 - Juking the Stats - High-Stakes Testing, Curriculum: "The Wire", by very special guest star Wayne Au
29 2007 - "Y'all Ready for Some Real School?": "Class of 3000" and H. Samy Alim
30 2008 - Who Is Stuck with the Alien Card?: "Aliens in America" and Nina Asher
31 2009 - "You're a Lima Loser and You Always Will Be!" - Curriculum of Placelessness in William McKinley High School's Glee Club: "Glee" by very special guest star Rachel Talbert
32 2010 - A Curriculum of America - Which Is Us: "America - The Story of Us" and Thea Abu El-Haj
33 2011 - Measuring Up to Normal: "South Park" and Zeus Leonardo & Alicia Broderick
34 2012 - Bully Moves - Cyberbullying and Deleuzian Affect: "Rita" and Jette Kofoed & Jessica Ringrose
35 2013 - Simulating One-Dimensional Conceptions of Disability: "Switched at Birth" and Subini Ancy Annamma, David Connor, & Beth Ferri
36 2014 - Unanswered Readings, Anticolonial Possibilities: "Parenthood" and Leigh Patel
37 2015 - How to Get Away from the Prison of the Teacher Self: "How to Get Away with Murder" by very special guest star Esther Ohito
38 2016 - Affective School Leadership: "Vice Principals" and Alyssa Niccolini
39 2017 - Queering the Script: "American Vandal" and Harper Keenan
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40 2018 - The Hybrid Adventures of Sabrina and Strom: "The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina" by very special guest star Kathryn Strom
41 2019 - "Everyone Seems Happy ... and Queer!" - Sex Education and Queer(ed) Curricula of Consent: "Sex Education" with very special guest star Boni Wozolek
Epilogue - 2020 and Beyond: Janet Miller, "Abbott Elementary", and Us
Index
