11 articles in this issue
Lisa Farley,RM Kennedy,Sara Matthews
Editorial for Issue 10, Number 2 (2012).
Karen Espiritu
For Deborah Britzman and Alice Pitt (2004), “difficult knowledge” “signif[ies] the relations between representations of social trauma in curriculum and the individual's encounters with them in pedagogy” (p. 354). Difficult knowledge thus poses a twofold c... see more
Elizabeth Yeoman
A collaborative project to translate and edit Innu cultural and environmental activist Elizabeth Penashue’s diaries in Innu-aimun for publication raises aesthetic questions about choice of images, wording, interpretation, and contextualization. This artic... see more
Randa Khattar,Carol Anne Wien
What does a concept of “aesthetic responsiveness” offer to our understanding of the dynamics of teaching and learning about or from conflict? And what can it mean to live creatively as a teacher in the midst of suffering? To what extent is it possible to ... see more
Avril Aitken,Linda Radford
With the novelty of digital storytelling, there is increased enthusiasm in taking up forms of filmmaking in teacher education as a way to promote self-directed reflective practices. However, the visual quality of digital stories holds blind spots, in othe... see more
Melanie Bourke
Most well known for her large-scale silhouette installations, Kara Walker offers a critique of African-American history, as well as current cultural conditions, through a series of images that are a mixture of beautiful and grotesque, tranquil and violent... see more
Judith P. Robertson
The poetry that follows was born in the slippages between pedagogy and art, memory and desire, chaos and learning. Through the gestures of poetic language, I explore fragilities tied to times of learning, the conflicts of academic identity, and being touc... see more
Carl Leggo
I read and write and teach poetry because I hold a long commitment to the efficacy of poetry for transforming our hearts, imaginations, intellects, conversations, and communities. I promote a curriculum of poetry as a curriculum of possibility for learnin... see more
Celia Haig-Brown
Book Review: First Person Plural
Book Reivew: Despite This Loss
Monica Waterhouse
Book Review: A Deleuzian Approach to Curriculum