ABSTRACT

This book collects recent and creative theorizing emerging in the fields of curriculum studies and curriculum theory, through an emphasis on provoking encounters. Drawn from a return to foundational texts, the emphasis on an ‘encountering’ curriculum highlights the often overlooked, pre-conceptual aspects of the educational experience; these aspects include the physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of teaching and learning.

The book highlights that immediate components of one’s encounters with education—across formal and informal settings—comprise a large part of the teaching and learning processes. Chapters offer both close readings of specific work from the curriculum theory archive, as well as engagements with cutting-edge conceptual issues across disciplinary lines, with contributions from leading and emerging scholars across the field of curriculum studies.

This book will be of great interest to researchers, academics and post-graduate students in the fields of curriculum studies and curriculum theory.

chapter 2|12 pages

Currere Tales

Journeying as Pilgrims to the (an)Archive

part Strand I|51 pages

Spaces

chapter 3|17 pages

A Poor Curriculum in Urban Spaces

An Atlas for Ethical Relationality

chapter 4|15 pages

Technotheological Curricular Spaces

Encountering the Circus, Cathedral, and Bridge

chapter 5|15 pages

Experimentation in Afterschool U’s “Movie Maker Studios”

Unexpected Moments of Contingency, Teacher-Becoming, and Joy

part Strand II|57 pages

Plurality

chapter 6|13 pages

Singing at the Burrard Inlet

An Inquiry Into the Reverberations of Sounding in the Natural World

chapter 7|13 pages

Provoking Spiritual Encounters

Dancing With Spirit

chapter 8|13 pages

Locating Who (I Am) in What (I) Do

An Autoethnographic Encountering of Relational Curriculum

chapter 9|14 pages

Toward a Bountiful Curriculum

An Intercultural Encounter With Al-Farabi’s Pedagogy of Proximity (Ittisal)

part Strand III|39 pages

Intensities

chapter 10|14 pages

The Curriculum of Home Things

chapter 11|13 pages

Close Encounters of the Pedagogical Kind

Science Fictioning a Curriculum-to-Come

part Strand IV|50 pages

Charges

chapter 13|13 pages

Resistance and Resonance

Postcolonial Texts and Social Justice Conversations in ELA Classrooms in Rural Saskatchewan

chapter 15|13 pages

Conceptualizing and Enacting Sensational Currere

Attuning to the Embodied Essence in Autobiographical Curriculum Inquiry