ABSTRACT
Bill Doll's praxis, too, is fundamentally linked to his patience as a teacher and a scholar. There is no doubt that, as the author’s professor and mentor, he exercised great patience with him. Much of Bill Doll's work has been about moving curriculum beyond the limited logic imposed by teaching method. His use of post-modernism influenced the author’s own work in curriculum history by showing that any history of curriculum needs to bring together a complexity of thought within which a curriculum is situated. From Bill Doll's perspective, the concept of play would have to be included in any new term that scholars we might want to invent to replace the term of curriculum. That the concept of play would be a key aspect of Bill Doll's praxis should not be surprising to anyone who knows him or has read his work. For Bill Doll, play is the ground out of which knowing emerges.
