Description
This book collects recent and creative theorizing emerging in the fields of curriculum studies and curriculum theory, through an emphasis on provoking encounters. Drawn from a return to foundational texts, the emphasis on an ‘encountering’ curriculum highlights the often overlooked, pre-conceptual aspects of the educational experience; these aspects include the physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of teaching and learning.
The book highlights that immediate components of one’s encounters with education—across formal and informal settings—comprise a large part of the teaching and learning processes. Chapters offer both close readings of specific work from the curriculum theory archive, as well as engagements with cutting-edge conceptual issues across disciplinary lines, with contributions from leading and emerging scholars across the field of curriculum studies.
This book will be of great interest to researchers, academics and post-graduate students in the fields of curriculum studies and curriculum theory.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction
2 Currere Tales: Journeying as Pilgrims to the (An)archive
I SPACES
3 A Poor Curriculum in Urban Space: An Atlas for Ethical Relationality
4 Technotheology Curricular Spaces: Encountering the Circus, Cathedral, and Bridge
5 Experimentation in Afterschool U’s "Movie Maker Studios": Unexpected Moments of Contingency, Teacher-Becoming, and Joy
II PLURALITY
6 Singing at the Burrard Inlet: An Inquiry into the Reverberations of Sounding in the Natural World
7 Provoking Spiritual Encounters: Dancing with Spirit
8 Locating Who (I Am) in What (I) Do: An Autoethnographic Encountering of Relational Curriculum
9 Toward a Bountiful Curriculum: An Intercultural Encounter with Al-Farabi’s Pedagogy of Proximity (Ittisal)
III INTENSITIES
10 The Curriculum of Home Things
11 Close Encounters of the Pedagogical Kind: Science-Fictioning a Curriculum-to-Come
12 The Minor Gesture and Curriculum Studies
IV CHARGES
13 Resistance and Resonance: Postcolonial Texts and Social Justice Conversations in ELA Classrooms in Rural Saskatchewan
14 Love, Loss, and the Horizons of Human Becoming
15 Conceptualizing and Enacting Sensational Currere: Attuning to the Embodied Essence in Autobiographical Curriculum Inquiry
16 Provoking Curriculum (Studies): Intellectual Interpolations
List of Contributors
Index
