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.

chapter 1|15 pages

Introduction—From “The Echo of God’s Laughter”

The Generative and Generous Gifts of William E. Doll, Jr., to Curriculum Studies

part I|51 pages

Of Influence, Inspiration, and Intellectual Adventure

chapter 2|8 pages

Dynamics of a Scholarly Life

Conversational Complexity in Pursuit of the Mysterium Tremendum

chapter 3|9 pages

Toward the Reenchantment of Curriculum

A Study on William Doll’s Post-modern Curriculum Theory

chapter 4|10 pages

Education as Liberating Experience

Bill Doll’s Scholarship and Contested Legacies of Euro-American Curriculum Theories From Descartes Onwards

chapter 5|10 pages

Thoroughly (Post-Modern) Billy 1

part II|33 pages

Of Engagement, Immersion, and Transformative Experience

chapter 8|7 pages

Engaging Engaging

Topological Reflections Prompted by Bill Doll

chapter 9|7 pages

Playful Engagement With Difference

chapter 10|8 pages

A Recursive Path to Infinity

part III|32 pages

Of Play, Praxis, and Pedagogical Grace

chapter 11|7 pages

Learning the Play of Language

Hermeneutic Acts of Interpretation While Watching Bill Doll Dance

chapter 12|7 pages

A Life With Bill Doll

A Journey in Praxis, Patience, and Play

chapter 13|7 pages

An Extraordinary Pedagogical Figure

Bill Doll as a Susung

part IV|35 pages

Of Method, Mystery, and Visionary Magic

chapter 15|8 pages

Circling the Known

chapter 16|6 pages

An Ethics of Free Responsible Action

Examining Doll’s Struggling With Spirituality

part V|67 pages

Of School, Society, and the Sacred in Scholarly Tradition

chapter 19|6 pages

Post-modern Curriculum

Reviving the Vision

chapter 20|9 pages

Complex Conversations on Curriculum

Ghosts and the Five C’s Revisited

chapter 21|10 pages

“Wrestling” With Complexity

Bill Doll’s “Dancing Curriculum”

chapter 22|9 pages

Living Poetically

The Pedagogy of William E. Doll, Jr.

chapter 23|8 pages

Confronting Life and Death

Reflections on Living the Spirit of Education

chapter 24|20 pages

Afterword