Places of Curriculum Making: Narrative Inquiries into Children's Lives in Motion takes readers into the storied identities of children, families, teachers, and narrative inquirers as their lives meet both in school places and in home and community places. It is these contextual, multiperspectival, relational, and temporal aspects that draw forward compelling new understandings about, and tensions between, school curriculum making and familial curriculum making. In a rapidly shifting world these new understandings raise urgent new questions and possibilities for people who live most closely with children, their family and community members and their teachers.
Building upon Composing Diverse Identities: Narrative Inquiries into the Interwoven Lives of Children and Teachers (Clandinin et al., 2006) in which the authors conceptualized a curriculum of lives as a counter narrative to the dominant cultural, social, institutional, and linguistic narratives shaping lives in schools, in Places of Curriculum Making: Narrative Inquiries into Children's Lives in Motion, they offer both a reconceptualization and an extension of these ideas. Rather than seeing curriculum as only mandated subject matter they made central the identities, the stories to live by, being composed in classrooms, homes, and communities. In this way they paid attention to teachers' lives and the expression of their knowing in classrooms, and to children's lives and the expression of their knowing in classrooms. The authors also pay attention to children's and parent's lives and the expression of their knowing in homes, communities, and schools. Through their inquiry, they develop a more complex notion of curriculum making that includes the curriculum making in which children and families engage in their home and community places. In this book they trace the tensions experienced by children, families, and teachers in these multiple curriculum making sites and some of the profound identity making and assessment making implications that became visible. Because school curriculum making has been privileged both in schools and, more broadly in the fields of curriculum studies and teacher education, we know little about home and community curriculum making and the importance this more complex notion has for the identity making and assessment making of children, families, and teachers.
Places of Curriculum Making: Narrative Inquiries into Children's Lives in Motion takes readers into the storied identities of children, families, teachers, and narrative inquirers as their lives meet both in school places and in home and community places. It is these contextual, multiperspectival, relational, and temporal aspects that draw forward compelling new understandings about, and tensions between, school curriculum making and familial curriculum making. In a rapidly shifting world these new understandings raise urgent new questions and possibilities for people who live most closely with children, their family and community members and their teachers.
Building upon Composing Diverse Identities: Narrative Inquiries into the Interwoven Lives of Children and Teachers (Clandinin et al., 2006) in which the authors conceptualized a curriculum of lives as a counter narrative to the dominant cultural, social, institutional, and linguistic narratives shaping lives in schools, in Places of Curriculum Making: Narrative Inquiries into Children's Lives in Motion, they offer both a reconceptualization and an extension of these ideas. Rather than seeing curriculum as only mandated subject matter they made central the identities, the stories to live by, being composed in classrooms, homes, and communities. In this way they paid attention to teachers' lives and the expression of their knowing in classrooms, and to children's lives and the expression of their knowing in classrooms. The authors also pay attention to children's and parent's lives and the expression of their knowing in homes, communities, and schools. Through their inquiry, they develop a more complex notion of curriculum making that includes the curriculum making in which children and families engage in their home and community places. In this book they trace the tensions experienced by children, families, and teachers in these multiple curriculum making sites and some of the profound identity making and assessment making implications that became visible. Because school curriculum making has been privileged both in schools and, more broadly in the fields of curriculum studies and teacher education, we know little about home and community curriculum making and the importance this more complex notion has for the identity making and assessment making of children, families, and teachers.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781781902608 |
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| Publisher: | Emerald Group Publishing Limited |
| Publication date: | 08/01/2012 |
| Series: | Advances in Research on Teaching Series , #14 |
| Pages: | 168 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.37(d) |