Enacting Praxis
How Educators Embody Curriculum Studies
Kelly P. Vaughan (Edited by), Isabel Nuñez (Edited by)
9780807769065
Paperback / softback, published 27 October 2023
272 pages
22.9 x 15.6 x 1.3 cm, 0.272 kg
In this collection of writing and reflection, readers are invited to reclaim the connection between curriculum studies and the work of educators in schools and society. As the curriculum field has grown more complex and theoretical, our schools have become more corporatized, standardized, and dehumanized. This volume focuses on curriculum theory's power to assist practitioners in creating positive change. Chapters highlight the work of seven influential curriculum studies scholars: Maxine Greene, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Janet Miller, William Pinar, William Schubert, William Watkins, and Carter G. Woodson. After introducing and contextualizing the work of each featured theorist, the text includes chapters by scholar-practitioners working as K–12 teachers, teacher educators, and community educators who have been influenced by the theorist's ideas. These essays illustrate how curriculum studies scholarship influences practice in a variety of places; explore the ways that curriculum studies theorizing can be an intervention against technical pedagogical or curricular approaches; and focus on the importance of "conversations" between theory and practice.
Book Features:
- Presents a historical overview of curriculum studies by recounting a brief history of the field from the 1800s through the present.
- Provides a beginner-friendly introduction to seven highly influential theorists in the field of curriculum studies.
- Pairs the ideas of key curriculum scholars with practitioners who illustrate how curriculum studies theories influence their practice.
- Concludes with a chapter that highlights key themes and calls for increased focus on curriculum work in schools.
- Includes an appendix of curriculum studies resources, including key journals, conferences, organizations, and suggestions for future reading.
Contents (Tentative)
- PART I: Introduction and Context
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1. Introduction
Kelly P. Vaughan and Isabel Nuñez
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2. Understanding the Field
Kelly P. Vaughan and Isabel Nuñez
- PART II: The Curriculum of William Schubert
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3. The Recurring Roles of the Guest Speakers: Bill Schubert's Influence on My Work in Curriculum
Isabel Nuñez
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4. Questions of Worth as a Guide for Curriculum Development
Nozomi Inukai
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5. Essential Questions Asked of Curriculum: Enduring Understandings of Bill Schubert's Influence on my Roles
Elizabeth Álvarez
- PART III: The Curriculum of William Watkins
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6. How Shall We Live Together? William H. Watkins Theorizing the Past, Willing the Future with William H. Watkins
M. Francyne Huckaby
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7. Centering Justice: What Watkins Taught Me About Teaching, Learning, and Building a More Just World
Asif Wilson
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8. Educating Tomorrow's Architects and Builders: Lessons from William H. Watkins
Kelly P. Vaughan and Guadalupe Ramirez
- PART IV: The Curriculum of Maxine Greene
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9. Counter-Imagining: Wide-Awakeness, Problem-Posing Education, Counter-Storying, and Critical Asset-Based Community Mapping
Arlo Kempf
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10. Encounters, Landscapes, and Possibility
Kathleen Tieri Ton
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11. Maxine Greene's Invitation to Never Know Who You Are (Yet)
Avi Desai Lessing
- Part V: The Curriculum of William Pinar
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12. In Search of My/Our Selves: Tracing a Past, Present, and Future of Currere
Nichole Guillory
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13. William Pinar's Currere Process: Supporting Purposeful Pedagogy and Meaningful Educational Outcomes
Leslie Palmer
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14. In Search of Generative Experience
Clyde Gaw
- Part VI: The Curriculum of Gloria Ladson-Billings
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15. Lens Repair by Dr. Ladson-Billings: Teacher Educator and Optometrist
Michael Thomas and Aisha El-Amin
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16. Knowing Oneself and Others: Gloria Ladson-Billings and the Continued Relevance of Critical Race Theory in Education
Asilia Franklin-Phipps
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Chapter 17: Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings's Mission to Move Theory into Practice
Kawanya Benjamin
- PART VII: The Curriculum of Janet Miller
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18. The Flows of Transnationalism, Shifting Identities, and Relationships In-the-Making
Seungho Moon
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19. Teaching Through the Physical and Ideological Imposition of a Cordon Sanitaire: A Conversational Memory with Janet Miller
Joyce Maxwell
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20. Script for Curricular Chit-Chat from a Mothered Road: Exploring Janet Miller's Influence on Practice
Maya Pindyck
- PART VIII: The Curriculum of Carter G. Woodson
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21. Me and Carter G. Woodson: A Personal Journey
Anthony L. Brown
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22. Mission and Vision in Curriculum Studies: Activating and Leveraging Woodsonian Philopraxis
Lasana Kazembe
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23. Using the Essays of Carter G. Woodson to Work With my Students to Right Their Mis-education
Mary E. Negley
- PART IX: Concluding Thoughts
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24. Conclusion
Isabel Nuñez and Kelly P. Vaughan
- Afterword, Isabel Nuñez and Kelly P. Vaughan
- Endnotes
- Index
- About the Authors
