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Conversations of Curriculum Reform

Students’ and Teachers’ Voices Interpreted Through Autobiographical and Phenomenological Texts

by Kathryn M. Benson (Author)
©2006 Textbook XIV, 134 Pages
Series: Complicated Conversation, Volume 12

Summary

Conversations of Curriculum Reform is a retelling and recapturing of the school lives of students whose dialogue with their teacher and with each other is a transformative and tentative attempt to express and define their school experiences, which were complicated by the loss of two classmates. Meeting as adults, the former classmates reconsider their past and reinterpret their work as the author engages in a critical discourse on the limitations and complications of dialogical methodology. Grounded in phenomenology and compelled interpretatively by poststructuralist autobiographical insight, this book moves toward troubling the familiar notions of the personal and the spaces of autobiography in curriculum research and theory.

Details

Pages
XIV, 134
Year
2006
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820474793
Language
English
Keywords
Qualitative research Curriculumreform Curriculum Pedagogy reform Secondary education Hermeneutic phenomenology
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2006. XIV, 134 pp.

Biographical notes

Kathryn M. Benson (Author)

The Author: Kathryn M. Benson is Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia, Arkansas. She received her Ph.D. in the foundations of education from Louisiana State University, and currently is Program Director of an alternative licensure program.

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