Critical Consciousness in Curricular Research: Evidence from the Field

by Dana Muccular (Editor), Gary Muccular (Editor), Ayanna F. Brown (Editor), Lisa William-White (Editor)

Overview

The educational climate in the United States is ripe for dialogue and interrogation of notions of what should be taught in schools. The editors and contributors to this volume present descriptive, interpretive, ethnographic, autoethnographic, case study, essay, visual, and poetic work that focuses on the challenges to curriculum transformation, including the multifaceted ways that educators fight for a more socially, culturally, linguistically, and politically responsive curriculum. The contributors provide snapshots from homes, classrooms, and community spaces in an effort to illustrate how curricular approaches and implementation can offer counter-hegemonic agentry for emancipatory and democratic learning opportunities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433120152
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	05/31/2013
Series:	Critical Qualitative Research , #9
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Lisa William-White (PhD, University of California at Davis) is Associate Professor of Education in the Department of Graduate and Professional Studies in Education at Cali.fornia State University, Sacramento and is an educator at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California.
Dana Muccular (BA and MA, California State University, Sacramento) is a behavioral analyst for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, mental, emotional, and mild to severe physical disabilities.
Gary Muccular (BA and MA, California State University, Sacramento) is a social worker for a private foster family agency in Sacramento, Caifornia.
Ayanna F. Brown (PhD, Vanderbilt University) engages teacher candidates and practitioners in developing a critical lens of pedagogy and an examination of self in relationship to a philosophy of service, advocacy, and community. She is an associate professor at Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Illinois.

Table of Contents

Contents: Janice Tuck-Lively/Ayanna F. Brown: Grandma’s Brer Rabbit Wasn’t the Fool You So Admire: Teaching to Oppose the Conveniences Blackness Affords Whiteness – Gary Muccular Jr.: (De)Pathologizing Urban Spaces Through Dense Inquiry – Liliya Zhernokleyev: Найти Себя: An Autobiographical Journey of a Russian Teacher in America – Nicholas Daniel Hartlep (Koh Moil ): The «Not-So-Silent» Minority: Scientific Racism and the Need for Epistemological and Pedagogical Experience in Curriculum – Kaying Her: Nrhiav Kuv Lub Suab, a.k.a. Finding My Voice: A Hmong Student-Teacher’s Curriculum Story – Ya Po Cha: Curriculum Transformation Through the Study of Hmong Culture – Maggie Beddow: In Pursuit of Social Justice: My Socialization in Becoming a Social Studies Civics Educator – Dana Muccular: A Writer, a Reader and a Rape: Responsible Pedagogy Through Dialogue and Self-Study – Ayanna F. Brown: We Will Understand It Better By and By: Sojourning to Racial Literacy – Maria Mejorado: At the Helm: The Challenges of Empowering Agriculture Workers to Obtain Their GEDs – J. Baird/Nadeen T. Ruiz: Fighting for a Transnational Third Space in Teacher Education – Kathy Emery: All Real Education Is Political: History, Racism, and Progressive Pedagogy – Lisa William-White/Jonathan Luke Wood/Idara Essien-Wood/Cacee Belton/Gary Muccular Jr., Parrish Geary/Toni Newman: Mis-education or Malpractice? A Rallying Cry for an African-Centered Third Space in Curriculum Transformation – Jazmin A. White: Autoethnography of a Mad, Black Student – Motecúzoma Patrick Sánchez: Thug-Noble/Street-Scholar: Community Activism as Curriculum.

Editorial Reviews

«Currere as curriculum. Currere as life. This volume presents a truly revolutionary discourse. These authors present a living curriculum of self, community, and culture, an intensified discourse with and disclosure of daily life. There is poetry, family, survival, re-telling, anger, streets, teachers, fields, prayer, hope, classrooms, community, music, history, assault, dislocation, journey, immersion, exclusion, identity, hegemony, and dialogue. The book presents an unflinching look at education and life and challenges the dominant narrative, largely shaped by those outside of education, by providing autoethnographic accounts of third space, the destabilization of what counts as official literacy or knowledge through the unveiling of life.» (Jana Noel, Professor of Education, California State University, Sacramento)
«Addressing us from a hybrid third space, the contributors to this compelling collection teach fiercely the lessons they have learned. Signifying, testifying, these educators are poets, on one occasion like Audre Lorde, public intellectuals with specific communities in mind, ‘thug-noble’ despite violence, poverty, exploitation; here are farmworkers and tricksters, quite clear that ‘school reform’ continues the ongoing legacy of racism in the United States. No one can shut us up, we are assured. After reading this collection, I was reassured. Working from within, communicating across difference, these teachers provide a transnational, international, cross-cultural, intersubjective affirmation that education will not be left behind in the race to nowhere.» (William F. Pinar, Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia)

«Currere as curriculum. Currere as life. This volume presents a truly revolutionary discourse. These authors present a living curriculum of self, community, and culture, an intensified discourse with and disclosure of daily life. There is poetry, family, survival, re-telling, anger, streets, teachers, fields, prayer, hope, classrooms, community, music, history, assault, dislocation, journey, immersion, exclusion, identity, hegemony, and dialogue. The book presents an unflinching look at education and life and challenges the dominant narrative, largely shaped by those outside of education, by providing autoethnographic accounts of third space, the destabilization of what counts as official literacy or knowledge through the unveiling of life.» (Jana Noel, Professor of Education, California State University, Sacramento)
«Addressing us from a hybrid third space, the contributors to this compelling collection teach fiercely the lessons they have learned. Signifying, testifying, these educators are poets, on one occasion like Audre Lorde, public intellectuals with specific communities in mind, ‘thug-noble’ despite violence, poverty, exploitation; here are farmworkers and tricksters, quite clear that ‘school reform’ continues the ongoing legacy of racism in the United States. No one can shut us up, we are assured. After reading this collection, I was reassured. Working from within, communicating across difference, these teachers provide a transnational, international, cross-cultural, intersubjective affirmation that education will not be left behind in the race to nowhere.» (William F. Pinar, Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia)

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