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Is Our Education System Failing the Test of Life? a Curriculum Artifact Paper by Joanne Sawyer The humour of The Simpsons, taken at face value, serves as a form of escapism entertainment for viewers. How...
A Reader Response to Looking for Home: Work in Progress by Joanne Sawyer How did the interpretation of Cynthia Chambers’ “quest” to contextualize her identity slowly transform in my mind from a reading...
Inspiring An/Other Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky: A Reader Response by Jennifer L. Fontaine In “An/other Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky: Green washing, Curriculum and Eco-justice” Ng-A-Fook engages currere as a complicated conversation,...
The Remembrance Day Ceremony: A Curriculum Artifact Essay by Ingrid Boyd My friends and I sit quietly on the floor of the school gym. A group of older men walk in...
The American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies Conference AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CURRICULUM STUDIES ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING Tuesday, April 10 – Friday, April 13, 2012 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada PROPOSAL DEADLINE...
Magic Without the Wand: The Curriculum Meanings in Disney’s The Sword in The Stone A Curriculum Artifact Analysis Essay by Alyssa Doucet And below the hilt in letters of gold were written these words, ‘Who so pulleth out this sword of this...
Curricular praxis: Representation as ʻbuggeryʼ and legitimation for the public good an essay by Tobey Steeves In launching a dialogue with Apple’s (2004) Ideology and curriculum, I would like to diagram and problematize representational modes of engagement....
“Art in Times of Conflict: Curricular Explorations” The Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (CACS) Bi-Annual Pre-Conference Announcement and Call for Papers Saturday May 26, 2012, 9-6pm Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON “Art...
A Complicated Conversation with William Pinar: A Reader Response to “From Autobiography to Allegory” William Pinar (2011): “To understand curriculum as complicated conversation, I invoke the concept of ‘allegory.’ It is, in my usage, interrelated...
What is Curriculum Theory- A Reader Response by Nagin Alibabaiy In What is Curriculum Theory? Pinar uses Weimar Germany to illustrate the present curricular circumstances in the United States. This,...
Contemporary Studies in Canadian Curriculum: Principles, Portraits, and Practices This important new collection addresses the current state of curriculum studies in Canada. The book is divided into three parts, focusing respectively on...
The Fourth World Curriculum Studies Conference in Rio The International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (IAACS) is a worldwide consortium of those with an interest in...
Lost Voices by Lisa Shea for EDU 5265 Internationalization of Curriculum Studies The students played dumb, went silent, and, in some cases, chose to drop out of school. All these were mechanisms...
An Uncertain Harvest: A Case Study of Implementation of Innovation a Reader Response by Kieran Faw for EDU 5265 an Internationalization of Curriculum Studies As a physics teacher, I know that many concepts taught in school are a challenge for some students. Physics curriculum,...
Fifth Biennial PCS Conference Provoking Curriculum Studies as an Aesthetics of Vulnerability Hosted by the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta and sponsored by the Canadian Association for Curriculum...
5e conférence biennale PEC Faculté d’éducation Université de l’Alberta Colloque financé par l’Association canadienne pour l’étude du curriculum Le 21 et 22 octobre 2011 Renseignements sur l’inscription : Pour les...
One Day in the Life of Bartholemew Mathers a reader response by Sharon Holzscherer for EDU 5265 Internationalization of Curriculum Studies As usual, at five o’clock that morning the alarm clock was sounded by the blows of a hammer on the...
Canadian Identity and Curriculum Theory: An ecological, Postmodern Perspective by Courtney Beaulne for EDU 5265 Internationalization of Curriculum Studies The perplexing nature of attempting to describe the “isness” of Canadian identity makes me wonder if we can truly identify...
Sewing Patches-Sowing Progress: A Social Action Project by Dawn Collins Click here to read group newsletter affiliated with this social action project: http://www.curriculumtheoryproject.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/newsletter-SAP.pdf and the blog at www.sewingpatches-sowingprogress.blogspot.com. Homelessness… It seems...
Deconstructing Grand Narratives Through Micro-History: A Reading Response to Lisa Farley’s “The Reluctant Pilgrim:” Questioning Belief After Historical Loss by Marie Roberts for EDU 5260 Introduction to Curriculum Studies “We’re going to start with discussing The Cheese and the Worms,” my professor offered. “Menocchio’s story,” she continued, “will help...
The Curriculum of The Tragically Hip? Examining National Identity Formation Through “Fireworks” a curriculum artifact analysis by Marie Roberts for EDU 5260: Introduction to Curriculum Studies Without questioning why, I have always thought of the song “Fireworks” by The Tragically Hip as an unofficial anthem for...
Understanding Standardization as a School of Rock The law library is quiet as I begin to sit down and think more critically about the movie School of...
A Reader Response for PED 3102 Schooling and Society to Surviving the Pain and Widening the Circle: Celebrating Lesbian and Gay Pride Week in an Elementary Classroom There tends to be the idea that children in elementary school are too young to know their sexuality. It’s funny,...
Who should the curriculum favor: The individual and/or the collective? A Reader Response by Marlaina Riggio for EDU 5260 Introduction to Curriculum Studies “Today’s students are expected to ‘turn’ into something” (Brandt, 2004, p. 500) What exactly makes a good curriculum “good”? Is...
Future Limitations of Storying the Teacher A Reader Response by Justin Rukaruck for EDU 6460 Curriculum, Culture, and Language And lives stopped feeling like lives – or at least, people began talking about not having a life. What could...
Exploring a Grandm/other’s Various Identities: Alda Freire, Curriculum Theory, & Life Writing by Justine Sousa for EDU 6460 Curriculum, Culture, and Language Other people’s stories are as varied as the landscapes and languages of the world; and the storytelling traditions to which...
Resistance and Reorientation: Reclaiming Identity and Racialized Spaces in Fred Wah’s Diamond Grill by Amy Zetting for EDU 6460 Curriculum, Culture, and Language In the same way that Stuart Hall “considers the way all identities are framed by both commonalities and differences as...
Shifting Poetic Paradigms by Marlaina Riggio for EDU 6460 Curriculum, Culture, Language I’m definitely not a poetry person. In fact, just the thought of having to read through something as short as...
Goodson’s Storying the Self: Life Politics and the Study of the Teacher’s Life and Work a Reader Response by Ashley Law for EDU 6460 Curriculum Culture and Language In Storying the Self: Life Politics and the Study of the Teacher’s Life and Work, Ivor Goodson contends that the...
Jonathan tout au long de ma vie a Film Analysis by OLIVIER BÉGIN-CAOUETTE for EDU 6460 Curriculum, Culture, and Language Dans quelques mois, l’Université d’Ottawa certifiera que je « maîtrise » le métissage entre la politique out there et la...
  • Is Our Education System Failing the Test of Life? a Curriculum Artifact Paper by Joanne Sawyer0December 21, 2011

    Is Our Education System Failing the Test of Life? a Curriculum Artifact Paper by Joanne Sawyer

    The humour of The Simpsons, taken at face value, serves as a form of escapism entertainment for viewers. How...
  • A Reader Response to Looking for Home: Work in Progress by Joanne Sawyer0December 19, 2011

    A Reader Response to Looking for Home: Work in Progress by Joanne Sawyer

    How did the interpretation of Cynthia Chambers’ “quest” to contextualize her identity slowly transform in my mind from a reading...
  • Inspiring An/Other Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky: A Reader Response by Jennifer L. Fontaine0December 5, 2011

    Inspiring An/Other Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky: A Reader Response by Jennifer L. Fontaine

    In “An/other Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky: Green washing, Curriculum and Eco-justice” Ng-A-Fook engages currere as a complicated conversation,...
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