Places of Curriculum Making: Narrative Inquiries into Children's Lives in Motion (Advances in Research on Teaching, 14) - Softcover

D. Jean Clandinin; Janice Huber; M. Shaun Murphy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781902607 ISBN 13: 9781781902608

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2012

Synopsis

This book documents a radical shift in thinking from focusing on the school as the place where curriculum is made to realizing the ways children and families are engaged as curriculum makers in homes, in communities, and in the spaces in-between, outside of school. The narrative inquiry framing this book investigates the tensions experienced by teachers, children and families as they make curriculum attentive to lives. It draws on a research project involving multiperspectival narrative inquiries spanning four research sites and traces the tensions experienced by children, families and teachers in multiple curriculum making sites and some of the profound identity making and assessment making implications that become visible. Its attention to the relational in narrative inquiry is focused on tensions that shape lives and, as well, the unfolding of narrative inquiries. This informative book has a wide reaching audience of educational researchers, teacher educators, research methodologists, particularly those interested in narrative inquiry, curriculum scholars, graduate students, university faculty, teachers, administrators and parents alike.

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About the Author

D. Jean Clandinin - University of Alberta, Canada
Janice Huber - University of Regina, Canada
M. Shaun Murphy - University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Edition details

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781902607
• ISBN 13: 9781781902608
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168