Poetics of Curriculum, Poetics of Life : An Exploration of Poetry in the Context of Selves, Schools, and Society / by Mary-Elizabeth Vaquer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vaquer, Mary-Elizabeth., Author.

Series:

Imagination and Praxis: Criticality and Creativity in Education and Educational Research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2016.

Summary:

Through multiple lenses of curriculum studies, the author explores how poetry is situated in the pedagogical world. Her work aims to illuminate how poetry is studied in schools and how these practices of studying poetry give poetry its cultural identity. Each chapter is guided by insight from John Dewey’s Art as Experience which promotes explorations of opportunities for students to have profound experiences with poetry and art in schools. The purpose of this book is not to offer a prescription for teachers to use in their classrooms. This is not an outline regarding how someone should include poetry in a lesson plan. Rather, the author explores why poetry is important in our lives and how poetry can contribute to opening avenues for new possibilities through imagination and transformation based on phenomenological experience and scholarship. She explores poetry through Dewey’s notion of aesthetics across diverse aspects of meaning making through poetry in a contemporary context. She also explores the influences that poetry has on the curriculum of our lives, and the influence that our lived curriculum has on the future of poetry. .

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Prelude

A Sonnet: When Night Hangs Low

A Sestina: O Muses, May You Come

Free Verse with Pre-Commentary: The I/Eye of Beginning: The Importance of a Renewed Focus on Writing

Interlude

Poetry and Curriculum Align

Curriculum and Poetry Meet

Nature

Knowledge and Culture Creation

Autobiography

The Regressive

Progressive

Therap-oetr-y

Analytical

Synthetical

Preconscious Realms of Experience

Expanded Sources of Literature

Infinite Possibilities

Personal Liberty and Emancipation

The Means and the Ends

Political and Social Implications

New Language, New Freedom

Poetry in a Standardized and Commodified World

In Their Own Words

Stolen Experience

Hybridization and Mathematization

Art and the Individual

The Individual

Kozol, Inequity, and Individualism

Imitation

Freeplay and Deconstruction

Taking It Back

Revisiting the Outdated: Form, Rhythm, and Performance in Poetry

Psychology of Form

Milktongue, Goatfoot, and Twinbird

Form and Class

Form and Possibility

Poetry in Practice

The Aural/Oral Element

Memorization

Reading out Loud

Ultimately

Minimalism, Creative Writing, and the Reader/Writer Connection

Statement and Expression

Minimalism?

Reception Theory

Genre

The Human Text

Différance and the Dearth of Essence

Who Owns Writing?

The Necessary Deconstruction

The “Efferent” and the “Aesthetic”

Le Grand Metanarrative

Minimalism as Translation

Analogies of Photography/Minimalism

A Musical Consideration

And Beyond

Art as Experience through Dwelling, Lingering, and Loafing

Transcendence

Catharsis

Being Connected

So-Called “Best” Practices

Solitude

Dwelling

Lingering

Loafing

The Art of Idleness

Friends in Low Places: Poetry up, Down, and All Around

The High and the Low of It

But First, the Obvious: Poetry and Rap Music

Slang and Stuff

Speaking of New Languages…

Even Stranger?

Poetry, Naturally

Dimming the Lights

Addendum

References. .

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9789463004657

9463004653

OCLC:

938891018