Surveying Borders, Boundaries, and Contested Spaces in Curriculum and Pedagogy. Curriculum and Pedagogy Series

• Published in: IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc
• Main Authors: Reilly, Cole, Ed, Russell, Victoria, Ed, Chehayl, Laurel K., Ed, McDermott, Morna M., Ed
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc 2011
• Subjects: Accountability; African Languages; Black Dialects; California; Conflict; Curriculum; Democracy; Editing; Educational Research; English Instruction; Equal Education; High Schools; Inclusion; Inquiry; Instruction; Mathematics; Mexico United States Border; Multicultural Education; Power Structure; Professional Development Schools; Race; Racial Bias; Social Justice; Teacher Education; Teacher Education Curriculum; Texas; Theory Practice Relationship; Texas; California
• ISBN: 1617355216; 9781617355219

The Curriculum and Pedagogy book series is an enactment of the mission and values espoused by the Curriculum and Pedagogy Group, an international educational organization serving those who share a common faith in democracy and a commitment to public moral leadership in schools and society. Accordingly, the mission of this series is to advance scholarship that engages critical dispositions towards curriculum and instruction, educational empowerment, individual and collectivized agency, and social justice. The purpose of the series is to create and nurture democratic spaces in education, an aspect of educational thought that is frequently lacking in the extant literature, often jettisoned via efforts to de-politicize the study of education. Rather than ignore these conversations, this series offers the capacity for educational renewal and social change through scholarly research, arts-based projects, social action, academic enrichment, and community engagement. Authors will evidence their commitment to the principles of democracy, transparency, agency, multicultural inclusion, ethnic diversity, gender and sexuality equity, economic justice, and international cooperation. Furthermore, these authors will contribute to the development of deeper critical insights into the historical, political, aesthetic, cultural, and institutional subtexts and contexts of curriculum that impact educational practices. Believing that curriculum studies and the ethical conduct that is congruent with such studies must become part of the fabric of public life and classroom practices, this book series brings together prose, poetry, and visual artistry from teachers, professors, graduate students, early childhood leaders, school administrators, curriculum workers and planners, museum and agency directors, curators, artists, and various under-represented groups in projects that interrogate curriculum and pedagogical theories. This book begins with "Cognitive Imperialism and Decolonizing Research: Modes of Transformation," a foreword by Marie Battiste, and "Putting it Together." This book is divided into four sections. Section I, Theory and Practice: (In)Forming (Trans)Forming (Re)Forming, contains the following: (1) Editing Crew: More than Just Carets (Amy Shema); (2) Get Real: Math in the Real World (Erin M. Humphries); and (3) Looking for June Cleaver: Reclaiming Equity in the High School English Language Arts Classroom (David L. Humpal). Section II, Transcending the Confines of Inside(R)/Outside)R, contains the following: (4) Traveling Curriculum's Borders: Curricular Implications for Schools along the Texas-Mexico Border (Jaime Lopez); (5) Navigating Borderlands of Accountability: An Autoethnographic Exploration (Melissa Castaneda); and (6) Echoes Down the Rabbit Hole: Voices Heard and Lost in the Land of Professional Development Schools (Victoria Russell). Section III, Translating Silence and Noise, contains the following: (7) Power Negotiations and Race-Centric, Race-Avoidant and Seemingly Race-Neutral Academic Tasks (Myosha McAfee); (8) To What Extent Am I Part of the Problem?: Strategizing Identity Politics While Instructing a Multicultural Teacher Education Course (Cole Reilly); and (9) Dramatic Encounters: The Role of the Private and Public in Understandings of Social Justice through Conflict (Antonino Giambrone). Section IV, Troubling Capital and Deficit, contains the following: (10) Border Inquiry (Melina Martinez); (11) The Influence of West African Languages on African American Vernacular: Ebonics Crisis in Oakland, California Revisited (Michael Takafor Ndemanu); (12) Literacy sin Fronteras: Deconstructing Borders for Language and Cultural Inclusion (Elva Reza-Lopez, Blanca Caldas Chumbes and Christian Belden); and (13) Anti-Racist Teacher Education Curriculum: Toward a Reconceptualization of the Racial Framework of Prospective Teachers (Nicole V. Williams). Also included are: (1) "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Editing this Book: Considering Borders & Boundaries Between "Public" & "Art" in Framing Arts-Based Education Research," an epilogue; and (2) "Something about Hats: Teaching, Researching, and Teaching Research for Understanding," an afterword.