Recently added articles from JCT:

The Cultural Studies of Education: Introduction to a Special Issue of Journal of Curriculum Theorizing

Jul 01, 2006; Weaver, John A; Carlson, Dennis; Dimitriadis, Greg ... How not to speak, today, of the university? ...it is impossible, now more than ever, to dissociate the work we do, within one discipline or several, from a reflection on the political and institutional conditions of that work. -Jacques Derrida, "The Principle of Reason: The university in ...

Shoot the Elephant: Antagonistic Identities, Neo-Marxist Nostalgia, and the Remorselessly Vanishing Pasts

Jul 01, 2006; McCarthy, Cameron; Logue, Jennifer ... Say Cockney fire shooter. We bus' gun Cockney say tea leaf. We just say sticks man You know dem have a wedge while we have corn Say Cockney "Be my first son' we just say Gwaan! - Paul Gilroy, There Aint No Black in the Union Jack, p. 196 'the problematic ...

Cultural Curriculum Studies, Multiplicity, and Cinematic-Machines

Jul 01, 2006; Reynolds, William M ... It is time to recognize that the true tutors of our children are not schoolteachers or university professors but filmmakers, advertising executives, and pop culture purveyors. Disney does more than Duke, Spielherg outweighs Stanford, MTV trumps MIT. (Benjamin Barber, The Nation) It is ...

The Foundations/Cultural Studies Nexus: An Emerging Movement in the Education Field

Jul 01, 2006; Lather, Patti ... [T]he future of social foundations of education is already intertwined with cultural studies in education. (Steve Tozer, 2001, p. 304) This essay situates Cultural Studies in Education (CSE) as "in-the-making" (Ockman, 2000). Its tale is of contradictory tendencies at one of the primary ...

From Nerds to Napoleons: Thwarting Archetypical Expectations in High School Films

Jul 01, 2006; Bach, Jacqueline ... "And the number one sign that you're not the most popular guy in school?" "#1? How the heck would I know? I'm like the coolest kid in school. Gosh!" -Jon Heder, appearing as Napoleon Dynamite on The Show with David etterman In the past twenty years of teenage angst ...

Relocating Cultural Studies into Curriculum Studies

Jul 01, 2006; Pinar, William F ... In this art of study, each component of culture has a part to play, and every component of art, literature, science, and thought can be seen as educational in a rigorous sense. -Robert McClintock (1971, 165) The disciplinary specularity of the lynching and castration scene ... ...

Economies of Identity: Cultural Studies and a Curriculum of Making Place1

Jul 01, 2006; Helfenbein, Robert J Jr ... This paper profiles research that developed out of an interest in youth, youth identity formation, and how people engage in the process of place-making (Massey, 1995). This project examines how students use the facilities of an after-school computer lab to negotiate and navigate the structures ...

A Hopeful Curriculum: Community, Praxis, and Courage

Jul 01, 2006; Renner, Adam; Brown, Milton ... In his critical reflection on Pedagogy of the Oppressed ( 1970), Paulo Freire proclaims in Pedagogy of Hope ( 1992 ), "I cannot understand human existence, and the struggle needed to improve it, apart from hope and dream" (p. 8). We. as teachers and as global community members, identify with ...

Re-Living Dangerous Memories: On-Line Journaling To Interrogate Spaces of "Otherness" in a Multicultural Course

Jul 01, 2006; Caruthers, Loyce; Smith, Dianne ... Challenges, posed by Darling-Hammond (1997), require that schools in America do something they have never done before-that is educate all children. Building a system of schools that can educate people for contemporary society requires two things U.S. schools have never been called upon ...

Disrupting the North/South Binary: A Deconstruction of Two Social Studies Textbooks' Portrayal of the Reconstruction Era in America (1861-1877)

Jul 01, 2006; Schramm-Pate, Susan L ... Introduction In American social studies textbooks, the chapters about the critical period between 1861 -1877 in our nation's history often characterizes life in the United States dichotomously between the northern states and the southern states. The North is illustrated as increasingly ...