Mythopoetics of Currere - Memories, Dreams, and Literary Texts As Teaching Avenues to Self-Study

In The Mythopoetics of Currere, Doll uses depth psychology, myth, and literature to offer a new approach to currere, the root of curriculum, through essays exploring significant literary images that open doorways into the fictions that layer the self.

List of contents

Introduction: The Remembered Self
Section One: Dreams and the Curriculum of the Remembered Self
Chapter One: Memory and Currere
Chapter Two: Planting: For Bill
Chapter Three: My Brother: Duncan/Bill
Chapter Four: My Mother, the Editor, Mary Louise Aswell
Chapter Five: My Father, the Editor, Edward Campbell Aswell
Chapter Six: Memory Slides
Chapter Seven: Dreams: The Coursings from Within
Chapter Eight: Beyond the Window: The Inscape of Currere
Section Two: The Mythopoetics of Currere in Literary Texts
Chapter Nine: Curriculum as the Fictions that Layer the Self
Chapter Ten: I am Dirt: Disturbing the Genesis of Western Hegemony
Chapter Eleven: Writers in the Mythic Mode: Shattering the Stillness
Chapter Twelve: What Nature Allows: Queer Love
Chapter Thirteen: The Body of Knowledge
Chapter Fourteen: The Butterfly Effect: Chaos and the Fictions of Identity
Chapter Fifteen: Capacity and Currere
Chapter Sixteen: The Poetics of Elsewhere
Chapter Seventeen: Beyond the Pale of Female Subjectivity
Chapter Eighteen: Crone in the Classroom
Chapter Nineteen: Before the Wave: Goddess Authority
Chapter Twenty: The Mythopoetics of Currere

About the author

Mary Aswell Doll is Professor of English in the Liberal Arts Department at Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah Georgia, USA.

Summary

In The Mythopoetics of Currere, Doll uses depth psychology, myth, and literature to offer a new approach to currere, the root of curriculum, through essays exploring significant literary images that open doorways into the fictions that layer the self. Offering a focus on the body, queer love, false belief, strangeness, otherness, and chaos, this book suggests new metaphors for understanding why currere is what matters most in curriculum.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Aswell Doll, Doll Mary Aswell
• Assisted by: William F. Pinar (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.2017
• EAN: 9781138207691
• ISBN: 978-1-138-20769-1
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series; Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Teaching materials, hand-outs; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Curricula, EDUCATION / Learning Styles, EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives, Educational psychology, Moral and social purpose of education, Curriculum planning & development, Moral & social purpose of education, Curriculum planning and development