Reimagining curriculum studies [electronic resource] : a mosaic of inclusion / Donald S. Blumenfeld-Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blumenfeld-Jones, Donald.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Curricula--Philosophy.

Education.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer, 2022.

Summary:

This book addresses the crucial issue of how we value and deploy the idea of "freedom" that underlies contemporary curriculum studies. Whether we are conventional curriculum thinkers who value knowledge development or favor a Deweyan, individualist orientation toward curriculum or are a critical social justice curriculum thinker, at the heart of all these orientations and theorizing is the value of "freedom." The book addresses "freedom" through novel sources: the work of Martin Buber on education, Julia Kristeva on the uses of imagination and the female/male dialectic, Emmanuel Levinas unique approach to ethics, and more. Readers will find new ways to understand freedom and the world of ethical life as informing curriculum thinking. It provides a more ecumenical vision that can draw our differences together. It helps readers to reconsider ourselves in fruitful ways that can bring more relevance and substance to the field.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgments

Introduction-Reimagining Curriculum Studies and Ecumenical Restlessness

Dimensions of Reimagining Curriculum Studies

The Need for Ecumenical Restlessness Within Curriculum Studies

References

Contents

1 The Illness of Our World: A Critique of Curriculum Studies

2 Mosaical Thinking and Curriculum Theory

What is Mosaical Thinking?

What is Curriculum Theory?

Language and Experience

Structuring a Mosaical Book

The Scholarly Life: Raising Questions, Too Many Answers

3 Dialectical Processes Toward Freedom

Self-Critique in the Field of Curriculum Studies

Curriculum Studies Self-Critique: A Short History

Moribund in a New Key: Global Self-Critique

Being Critical

Founding Axioms, Orthodoxy, and Ideology

Perspectives on Being Critical

Jürgen Habermas on the Word "Crisis"

Being Critical: Its Cognates of "Radical" and "Root"

The Dialectical Döppelganger of "Creativity"

Bourdieu on Criticality and Self-critique

Dialectics

Negative Dialectics

The Dialectics of First Impressions

Dialectical Conundrums: False Consciousness and First Impressions

Dialectics and Utopianism

Unlearning and the Practice of Being Critical

A Brief Overview of Unlearning in the Education Field

Ontology and Unlearning

Unlearning the Lessons of Knowing: A Dialectical Analysis

Epilogue

4 Wild Imagination and the Critical Project

Politics at Every Second: Power in Everyday Life

Varieties of Wild Imagination

Viaticus Hooveraneous: A Story of Wild Imagination

Imagination in Art, Imagination in Science

The Naïve Disposition

Uses of Imagination

Hans-Georg Gadamer and Embodied Imagination

Wild Imagination, the Equal of Reason and More ...

Levinas and Pre-States of Bodily Imagination

Practicing Wild Imagination as a Critical Project

Radical Imagination: Not Wild Enough

Examples of Wild Imagination in Curriculum Studies

Hogan Dreams

Trois Chaises

Curriculum, Control, and Creativity

Wild Imagination and Curriculum Studies

5 Freedom All Too Human

Freedom: The Heart of Curriculum Studies

Freedom as a Possession of the Individual

Freedom As Dialogue

Primary Relationships to the World: I-It and I-Thou

Freedom and Education

Freedom in Dialogue

Freedom and Responsibility

Freedom in Curriculum Studies Practices

6 Pure Imagination and Freedom

Pure Imagination and Freedom

Analysis of "Pure Imagination," the Song

Stanza 1-Discovering Your Imagination

Stanza 2-Experiencing an Imaginative World

Stanza 3-Forming Your Own Imaginative World

Stanza 4-A Paean to Pure Imagination: The Master Speaks of His Life

The Ontology of Pure Imagination

7 Creativity and Aesthetic Consciousness in Teacher Education

Prologue: Embodiment and Aesthetic Consciousness

Notes:

Introduction: Contemporary Society and Aesthetics.

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 22, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Blumenfeld-Jones, Donald S. Reimagining Curriculum Studies

ISBN:

9789811698774

9811698775

OCLC:

1311312075

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.