The central theme of Curricular Conversations is this: Play is the thing that brings aesthetic curricular complications near educators and their students, making the lived consequences very vivid, tangible, and possible. Viewing curriculum as genuine inquiry into what is worth knowing, rather than simply a curricular document, this book explores the significances instilled and nurtured through aesthetic play. Each chapter delves into the space a given artwork reveals. The artworks act as points of departure and/or generative vehicles, foregrounding the roles and possibilities of play within curricular conversations. Looking at relevant educational issues, traditions, and theorists through an illuminating lens, this book speaks to curriculum theorists and arts educators everywhere.
Autorentext
Margaret Macintyre Latta is a Professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning, & Teacher Education, College of Education & Human Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.
Zusammenfassung
The central theme of Curricular Conversations is this: Play is the thing that brings aesthetic curricular complications near educators and their students, making the lived consequences very vivid, tangible, and possible. Viewing curriculum as genuine inquiry into what is worth knowing, rather than simply a curricular document, this book explores the significances instilled and nurtured through aesthetic play. Each chapter delves into the space a given artwork reveals. The artworks act as points of departure and/or generative vehicles, foregrounding the roles and possibilities of play within curricular conversations. Looking at relevant educational issues, traditions, and theorists through an illuminating lens, this book speaks to curriculum theorists and arts educators everywhere.
Inhalt
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1-Introduction: Aesthetic Play Matters to Curricular Conversations
Chapter 2-Aesthetic Play: "Force of the Possible"
Chapter 3-Aesthetic Play: Elemental to Being Human
Chapter 4-Aesthetic Play: Embracing of Place
Chapter 5-Aesthetic Play: In Need of Other(s)
Chapter 6-Aesthetic Play: Temporal Spatial Agency
Chapter 7-Aesthetic Play: Interdependent with Imagination, Instilling Embodied Understandings
Chapter 8-Aesthetic Play: Attunement to Process
Chapter 9-Aesthetic Play: Fostering Self-Understandings in Relation to Wider Contexts & Citizenry
Chapter 10-Conclusion: Aesthetic Play's Clues, "Unquiet" Understandings, & the Makings of Self/World
Notes
Bibliography
Index