2nd Edition

Expanding Curriculum Theory Dis/positions and Lines of Flight

Edited By William M. Reynolds, Julie A. Webber Copyright 2016
    178 Pages
    by Routledge

    178 Pages
    by Routledge

    Expanding Curriculum Theory, Second Edition carries through the major focus of the original volume—to reflect on the influence of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of "lines of flight" and its application to curriculum theorizing. What is different is that the lines of flight have since shifted and produced expanded understandings of this concept for curriculum theory and for education in general. This edition reflects the impact of events that have contributed to this shift, in particular the (il)logic of school policy changes and reforms in the past decade, and the continued explosion of social media and its effect on the collective understanding of how both "knowledge" and "education" work as forms of repression. The introduction updates the text and puts it into current debates in the field and in the larger socio-economic milieu. New dis/positions are presented that explore central questions circulating within and outside curriculum studies. Exciting scholarship on a range of topics includes notions of desire and commodities, youth culture and violence, new directions in curriculum theory, Eco-Ethical consciousness, new Deleuzian views of normality, the diffusion of technology and lines of flight in transnational curriculum inquiry.

    Contents

    Preface

    Chapter 1. Introduction -- Curriculum Dis/positions - William M. Reynolds & Julie A. Webber

    Chapter 2. Commodification and Desire: Lines of Flight in the Distractions of Consumer Capitalism and Corporate Education –William M. Reynolds

    Chapter 3 The Damned Soul: Pleasure and Meaning in American Life –Julie A. Webber

    Chapter 4 To Die Well: The Death of Death in Curriculum –Jason Wallin

    Chapter 5 Reading Bateson and Deleuze on Difference Reading Bateson and Deleuze on Difference: Toward Education for Eco-Ethical Consciousness - Rebecca Martusewicz

    Chapter 6 Cracking the Dish: Micropolitical Possibilities for Bodies without Organs— Donald Livingston

    Chapter 7 Changing planes: lines of flight in transnational curriculum inquiry – Noel Gough & Warren Sellers

    Chapter 8 Wild Honey: Toward a Curriculum of Be(e)comings Tricia M. Kress & Robert Lake

    Chapter 9 Teaching-Assemblages: Negotiating Learning and Practice in the First Year of Teaching Teaching—Kathryn Strom

    Chapter 10 Epilogue - William M. Reynolds & Julie A. Webber

    List of Contributors

    Biography

    William M. Reynolds is Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading at Georgia Southern University, USA.

    Julie A. Webber is Professor of Politics and Government and a core faculty member in Women and Gender Studies at Illinois State University, USA.