Curriculum as Community Building: The Poetics of Difference, Emergence, and Relationality

ISBN-13: 9781433184642 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 218 str.

Liesa Griffin Smith

Opis

This book explores the complicated intersections of difference, embodiment, emergence, and relationality within the curriculum, to reimagine the possibilities of building the other community, one inclusive of difference.

Recenzje

"As all great books do, Curriculum as Community Building introduced me to something I hadn't thought about before-the intersections between curriculum, community, and autobiography. Smith elegantly considers several motifs, weaving, hostess, soil, in order to help us understand how to move in the world-by returning to the/our/a past and becoming mindful of how curriculum can serve as community building. This view is an essential way to think about how to respond to the 'narratives of estrangement, exile, and trauma,' that exist in society today. Smith's book is a must-read for those interested in community building, service-learning, and curriculum."-Jacqueline Bach, Louisiana State University

Spis treści

Acknowledgments - Introduction: Complicated Stories - Stories of Community - The Poetics of Difference - The Gifts and Works of the Body - Emergence - Relationality and the Desire to Encounter the Other - Reimagining Curriculum as Community Building - Index.

O autorze

Liesa Griffin Smith earned her PhD in curriculum studies from Oklahoma State University. With more than 20 years lived experience as a teacher and school leader, Liesa currently serves as Lead High School Principal at Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences.