ABSTRACT

Bringing together Carl Leggo’s most significant contributions over the past 30 years, this book celebrates his work in curriculum studies, English language arts, literacy and life writing, poetry, and arts education. Organized around three thematic sections—Loving Language, Narrating Ruminations, and Storying the World—the volume highlights his efforts across interrelated fields of inquiry, including narrative and poetic inquiry, contemplative inquiry, and social fiction. The text extends the discussion and conversation of curriculum studies and is greatly enhanced with a selection of original poetry by this incomparable poet, scholar, and teacher. Carl Leggo is renowned not only for his ground-breaking work at the University of British Colombia, but also for his tremendous influence on graduate education across the English-speaking world. This volume honours that immense contribution in today’s time of academic change and development.

part |79 pages

Loving Language

chapter 1|14 pages

Loving Language

Poetry, Curriculum, and Ted T. Aoki 1

chapter 2|11 pages

The Faces of Love

The Curriculum of Loss 1

chapter 3|8 pages

A Poem Can

Poetic Encounters 1

chapter 4|12 pages

Challenging Hierarchy

Narrative Ruminations on Leadership in Education 1

chapter 5|17 pages

Living Love

Confessions of a Fearful Teacher 1

chapter 6|13 pages

Lifewriting

A Poet’s Cautionary Tale 1

part |92 pages

Narrating Ruminations

chapter 7|12 pages

Narrative Inquiry

Attending to the Art of Discourse 1

chapter 8|21 pages

Learning by Heart

A Poetics of Research 1

chapter 9|14 pages

The Heart of Pedagogy

On Poetic Knowing and Living 1

chapter 10|12 pages

The Curriculum of Joy

Six Poetic Ruminations 1

chapter 11|14 pages

Light and Shadow

Four Reasons for Writing (and Not Writing) Autobiographically 1

chapter 12|15 pages

The Poet’s Corpus

Nine Speculations 1

part |64 pages

Storying the World

chapter 13|10 pages

The Curriculum of Becoming Human

A Rumination 1

chapter 14|13 pages

Research as Poetic Rumination

Twenty-Six Ways of Listening to Light 1

chapter 15|11 pages

Writing the Unwritten Sentence

Living Poetically With Teachers and Students 1

chapter 16|13 pages

The Story Always Ends With Etc.

Autobiography and Poetry 1

chapter 17|13 pages

Storing the Word/Storying the World 1