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Advancing our understanding and conversation of existing problems and possibilities in education, this collection serves as both an homage to Doll and a call for action and consideration of what matters in education.
List of contents
1. Introduction—From "The Echo of God’s Laughter": The Generative and Generous Gifts of William E. Doll, Jr. to Curriculum Studies Part I: Of Influence, Inspiration, and Intellectual Adventure 2. Dynamics of a Scholarly Life: Conversational Complexity in Pursuit of the Mysterium Tremendum 3. Toward the Reenchantment of Curriculum: A Study on William Doll’s Post-modern Curriculum Theory 4. Education as Liberating Experience: Bill Doll's Scholarship and Contested Legacies of Euro-American Curriculum Theories from Descartes Onwards 5. Thoroughly (Post-Modern) Billy 6. Travels with Bill in Search of America (and Beyond) Part II: Of Engagement, Immersion, and Transformative Experience 7. The . . . Readiness . . . To Be "All Ears" 8. Engaging Engaging: Topological Reflections Prompted by Bill Doll 9. Playful Engagement with Difference 10. A Recursive Path to Infinity Part III: Of Play, Praxis, and Pedagogical Grace 11. Learning the Play of Language: Hermeneutic Acts of Interpretation While Watching Bill Doll Dance 12. A Life with Bill Doll: A Journey in Praxis, Patience, and Play 13. An Extraordinary Pedagogical Figure: Bill Doll as a Susung 14. The Pedagogical Complexity of Story Part IV: Of Method, Mystery, and Visionary Magic 15. Circling the Known 16. An Ethics of Free Responsible Action: Examining Doll’s Struggling With Spirituality 17. Addressing "Curriculum" as an Inspirited Letter 18. The Pedagogy of the King of Chaos in a Post-Modern Era Part V: Of School, Society, and the Sacred in Scholarly Tradition 19. Post-modern Curriculum: Reviving the Vision 20. Complex Conversations on Curriculum: Ghosts and the Five C’s Revisited 21. "Wrestling" with Complexity: Bill Doll’s "Dancing Curriculum" 22. Living Poetically: The Pedagogy of William E. Doll Jr. 23. Confronting Life and Death: Reflections on Living the Spirit of Education 24. Afterword
About the author
Molly Quinn is Professor in the College of Education at Augusta University, USA.
Summary
The essays in this volume bring together leading-edge scholars to illuminate the work of William E. Doll, Jr., as a key curriculum thinker of global impact, and introduce his work and influence to new generations of scholars, teachers, and students of education. Drawing on their individual contexts, contributors cover a range of topics and themes, including engagement with pragmatism, the work of John Dewey, and the inclusion of post-modern, chaos, and complexity theories to education and curriculum. Advancing our understanding and conversation of existing problems and possibilities in education, this collection serves as both an homage to Doll and a call for action and consideration of what matters in education.
