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Triple Takes on Curricular Worlds is a groundbreaking exploration of curriculum studies that offers a new understanding of the "selves" educators bring to work. Three educators from three different disciplines write on issues not usually forefronted in curriculum studies: boundaries, disgrace, distance, fear, forgiveness, light, and mothers. Their gendered voices give new meaning to the idea of curriculum to include that which courses through their lives in the classroom, in the public sphere, and in their nighttime personas. Each writer demonstrates to what extent teaching must interact with living in the twenty-first century.

Writing from the perspectives of medicine, elementary education, and literature, the authors examine what it is like to live and work in a multidisciplined, multilayered world. Their chapters, born out of their life experiences, critique the serious issues of our time—terrorism, technology, power, and privilege—hoping to stimulate readers to think about their own public and private selves.

Foreword
Introduction

1. Boundaries

Introduction (Mary)
Through Thick and Thin: Boundaries in Medicine (Delese)
Boundary Lessness (Mary)
Revisioning Boundaries (Martha)

2. Curriculum

Introduction (Mary)
Doing Curriculum in the Medical Academy (Delese)
Motley Topics: Toward a Harlequin Curriculum (Mary)
Curriculum: Abuse or Possibility? (Martha)

3. Disgrace

Introduction (Martha)
Made of Others’ Words: Language’s Disgrace in Postcolonial African Writing (Mary)
Amazing (Dis)grace (Delese)
Disgrace: A Place to Begin Anew (Martha)

4. Distance

Introduction (Martha)
Shrinking Distance (Delese)
Embracing the Dis Stances (Mary)
Troubling Distance (Martha)

5. Fear

Introduction (Martha)
Heart be Still: Fear of Academic Performance (Delese)
Fear of Second Birth (Mary)
Examining the Face of Fear (Martha)

6. Forgiveness

Introduction (Delese)
Forgiveness: Beginning Again (Martha)
Forgiveness and For Isness (Mary)
“Mistakes Were Made”: Admitting (and Forgiving) Medical Error (Delese)

7. Light

Introduction (Delese)
Nurturing Light (Martha)
Holding Flashlights (Delese)
The Dark of Light (Mary)

8. Motherhood

Introduction (Delese)
Mothering from the Middle (Martha)
Motherhood, Desire, and Transnational Adoption (Delese)
What’s the Matter with Mom? (Mary)

9. Teaching

Introduction (Mary)
Teaching: A Return to Wonder (Martha)
Teaching in the Gap (Mary)
(Mis)Takes on Teaching (Delese)

Notes
References
Index

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	01 février 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780791481882
Langue	English

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TripleTakeson CurricularWorlds

Mary Aswell Doll, Delese Wear, and Martha L. Whitaker

Triple Takes on Curricular Worlds

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T R I P L E TA K E S O N C U R R I C U L A R W O R L D S

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MARY ASWELL DOLL DELESE WEAR MARTHA L. WHITAKER

S TAT E U N I V E R S I T Y O F N E W Y O R K P R E S S

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Doll, Mary Aswell. Triple takes on curricular worlds / Mary Aswell Doll, Delese Wear, Martha L. Whitaker. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-6721-X (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Curriculum planning—Study and teaching (Graduate)—United States. 2. Curriculum planning—Study and teaching (Higher)—United States. 3. Interdisciplinary approach in education—United States. 4. Critical pedagogy—United States. I. Wear, Delese. II. Whitaker, Martha L., 1948– . III. Title. LB2806.15.D63 2006 375'.0071'1--dc22 2005015253 ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-6721-3 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Foreword

Introduction

Contents

Boundaries Introduction (Mary) Through Thick and Thin: Boundaries in Medicine (Delese) Boundary Lessness (Mary) Revisioning Boundaries (Martha)

Curriculum Introduction (Mary) Doing Curriculum in the Medical Academy (Delese) Motley Topics: Toward a Harlequin Curriculum (Mary) Curriculum: Abuse or Possibility? (Martha)

Disgrace Introduction (Martha) Made of Others’ Words: Language’s Disgrace in Postcolonial African Writing (Mary) Amazing (Dis)grace (Delese) Disgrace: A Place to Begin Anew (Martha)

Distance Introduction (Martha) Shrinking Distance (Delese)

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Embracing the Dis Stances (Mary) Troubling Distance (Martha)

Fear Introduction (Martha) Heart be Still: Fear of Academic Performance (Delese) Fear of Second Birth (Mary) Examining the Face of Fear (Martha)

Forgiveness Introduction (Delese) Forgiveness: Beginning Again (Martha) Forgiveness and For Isness (Mary) “Mistakes Were Made”: Admitting (and Forgiving) Medical Error (Delese)

Light Introduction (Delese) Nurturing Light (Martha) Holding Flashlights (Delese) The Dark of Light (Mary)

Motherhood Introduction (Delese) Mothering from the Middle (Martha) Motherhood, Desire, and Transnational Adoption (Delese) What’s the Matter with Mom? (Mary)

Teaching Introduction (Mary) Teaching: A Return to Wonder (Martha) Teaching in the Gap (Mary) (Mis)Takes on Teaching (Delese)

Notes

References

Index

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Foreword

MARLA MORRIS

I assure you, reader, that this book will make you think differently about your own curricular world(s). This foreword is meant only to spark interest, not to steal fire. So I will try not to steal fire. Rather I write this foreword to help readers get ready to look forward, not to fore-cast. Here I would like to fore-tell (for forewords are about telling about the book one is about to read) read-ers thatTriple Takes on Curricular Worldsis a brilliant and ground-breaking book that will knock your socks off. This is a book that is un-for-gettable. If readers, however, are looking for a for-mula for curriculum, they are barking up the wrong tree. This book is an intellectual exploration of what it means to live in curricular worlds from the perspective of three women who work in radically different kinds of intellectual institutions. What an interesting book. Indeed. What I like about this book is that these authors have interesting ideas about words. Words such as boundaries, disgrace, distance, fear, forgiveness, light and mothers inform their curricular worlds. Readers will do a double take on each triple take as they are delighted, shocked, saddened, and made joyful by the seriousness and—yet—the playful-ness of the text-at-hand. Read and read again the concepts that web together this text, reader. You will be delighted. The woven fabric of the three voices touch on issues relevant not only to scholars of curriculum but to scholars and students across the disciplines as well. Autobiography, politics, medicine, liter-ature, philosophy and religion, as they relate to curricular worlds, enliven and embolden the text in provocative ways. Curricular worlds are the sites that both teachers and students inhabit, yet the authors suggest that teachers and stu-dents must rethink their habits and undo them, to think differently and more metaphorically about issues such as difference and alterity.

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Each section of the book is indeed a triple play as the bases are loaded with rich, metaphoric, and deep insight. Mary Aswell Doll, Delese Wear, and Martha Whitaker write deliciously about the possibilities of the progressive educative dream. These writers continue Dewey’s call for progressive thinking that allows students and teachers to become public intellectuals as they explore their own curricular worlds against the backdrop of the sociopolitical landscape. Readers, get fired up and get ready to steal the bases for the home run!Triple Takesis the home run of curriculum scholarship.

Introduction

MARY ASWELL DOLL DELESE WEAR MARTHA L. WHITAKER

WithTriple Takes on Curricular Worldsthree educators representing three dif-ferent academic disciplines write on a broad range of concepts not usually found in the field of curriculum studies: Boundaries, Disgrace, Distance, Fear, Forgiveness, Light, Mothers. Two chapters directly address curriculum issues: Teaching, and Curriculum. The concepts are considered separately by each educator, such that each is discussed from three distinct viewpoints, or “takes,” to form nine chapters in all. Delese Wear teaches medical education in a mid-western university system; Martha Whitaker teaches elementary education in a western university; and Mary Doll teaches liberal arts in a southern art col-lege. The chapters allow each writer to reflect from her personal as well as pro-fessional background. Each articulates from her distinct perspective but in a way that occasionally overlaps with the other writers. The book is grounded in what Maxine Greene (1995) calls “perspectival sight,” arising from differ-ent domains, different bodies, different projects. An intriguing aspect of the book is that the concepts we write on are rarely addressed in curriculum theorizing. The worlds we inhabit individually and collectively with our students involve more than traditional curricular concerns. Like those cultural and feminist studies that inform our work, we draw on a wide range of fields—aesthetic, spiritual, political—to produce the knowledge required to teach, to live. We think that the book will offer new, sometimes startling understanding of the selves educators bring to work. We think, because it dares to write from night thought as well as from day