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Bringing together Carl Leggo's most significant contributions over the past 30 years, this book celebrates his work in curriculum studies, English language arts, literacy and life writing, poetry, and arts education. Organized around three thematic sections-Loving Language, Narrating Ruminations, and Storying the World-the volume highlights his efforts across interrelated fields of inquiry, including narrative and poetic inquiry, contemplative inquiry, and social fiction. The text extends the discussion and conversation of curriculum studies and is greatly enhanced with a selection of original poetry by this incomparable poet, scholar, and teacher. Carl Leggo is renowned not only for his ground-breaking work at the University of British Colombia, but also for his tremendous influence on graduate education across the English-speaking world. This volume honours that immense contribution in today's time of academic change and development.
List of contents
Loving Language
The Many-Splendored "Words in Love" in Carl Leggo’s Curricular Worlds
by Erika Hasebe-Ludt
- Loving Language: Poetry, Curriculum, & Ted T. Aoki
Carl Leggo
- The Faces of Love: The Curriculum of Loss
Carl Leggo
- A Poem Can: Poetic Encounters
Carl Leggo
- Challenging Hierarchy: Narrative Ruminations on Leadership in Education
Carl Leggo
- Living Love: Confessions of a Fearful Teacher
Carl Leggo
- Lifewriting: A Poet’s Cautionary Tale
Carl Leggo
Narrating Ruminations
Storying my Ruminations by Rita L. Irwin
- Narrative Inquiry: Attending to the Art of Discourse
Carl Leggo
- Learning by Heart: A Poetics of Research
Carl Leggo
- The Heart of Pedagogy: On Poetic Knowing and Living
Carl Leggo
- The Curriculum of Joy: Six Poetic Ruminations
Carl Leggo
- Light and Shadow: Four Reasons for Writing (and Not Writing) Autobiographically
Carl Leggo
- The Poet’s Corpus: Nine Speculations
Carl Leggo
Storying the World
Lined Lives in a Box of Keepsakes by Anita Sinner
- The Curriculum of Becoming Human: A Rumination
Carl Leggo
- Research as Poetic Rumination: Twenty-six Ways of Listening to Light
Carl Leggo
- Writing the Unwritten Sentence: Living Poetically with Teachers and Students
Carl Leggo
- The Story Always Ends with etc.: Autobiography and Poetry
Carl Leggo
- Storing the Word/Storying the World
Carl Leggo
Index
About the author
Rita L. Irwin is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Art Education in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at The University of British Columbia, Canada.
Erika Hasebe-Ludt is Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge, Canada.
Anita Sinner is Associate Professor of Art Education in the Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Canada.
Summary
Bringing together Carl Leggo’s most significant contributions over the past 30 years, this book celebrates his work in curriculum studies, English language arts, literacy and life writing, poetry, and arts education. Organized around three thematic sections—Loving Language, Narrating Ruminations, and Storying the World—the volume highlights his efforts across interrelated fields of inquiry, including narrative and poetic inquiry, contemplative inquiry, and social fiction. The text extends the discussion and conversation of curriculum studies and is greatly enhanced with a selection of original poetry by this incomparable poet, scholar, and teacher. Carl Leggo is renowned not only for his ground-breaking work at the University of British Colombia, but also for his tremendous influence on graduate education across the English-speaking world. This volume honours that immense contribution in today’s time of academic change and development.
