ABSTRACT
The essays in this volume bring together leading-edge scholars to illuminate the work of William E. Doll, Jr., as a key curriculum thinker of global impact, and introduce his work and influence to new generations of scholars, teachers, and students of education. Drawing on their individual contexts, contributors cover a range of topics and themes, including engagement with pragmatism, the work of John Dewey, and the inclusion of post-modern, chaos, and complexity theories to education and curriculum. Advancing our understanding and conversation of existing problems and possibilities in education, this collection serves as both an homage to Doll and a call for action and consideration of what matters in education.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|15 pages
Introduction—From “The Echo of God’s Laughter”
part I|51 pages
Of Influence, Inspiration, and Intellectual Adventure
chapter 2|8 pages
Dynamics of a Scholarly Life
chapter 3|9 pages
Toward the Reenchantment of Curriculum
chapter 4|10 pages
Education as Liberating Experience
part II|33 pages
Of Engagement, Immersion, and Transformative Experience
part III|32 pages
Of Play, Praxis, and Pedagogical Grace
chapter 11|7 pages
Learning the Play of Language
part IV|35 pages
Of Method, Mystery, and Visionary Magic
chapter 16|6 pages
An Ethics of Free Responsible Action
part V|67 pages
Of School, Society, and the Sacred in Scholarly Tradition