Description |
xxi, 266 pages ; 23 cm |
Series |
Counterpoints, 1058-1634 ; vol. 117 |
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Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; vol. 117
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Contents |
Foreword / William F. Pinar -- Sect. I. Beginnings: Elliot Eisner and Literary Nonfiction. 1. Form the Classrooms of Stanford to the Alleys of Amsterdam: Elliot Eisner as Pedagogue. 2. Effectively Critiquing the Experienced Curriculum: Clues from the New Journalism. 3. Insinuated Theory from Curricula-in-Use. 4. Ambiguity and the Curriculum: Lessons from the Literary Nonfiction of Norman Mailer -- Sect. II. Deweyan Influences: The Aesthetics of the Everyday. 5. Things of Use and Things of Beauty: The Swain County High School Arts Program. 6. Educational Platforms, Teacher Selection, and School Reform: Issues Emanating from a Biographical Case Study. 7. Breaking the Mold: The New American Student as Strong Poet -- Sect. III. The Neopragmatism of Richard Rorty. 8. Using the Narrative Text as an Occasion for Conspiracy. 9. On the Demise of Subjectivity in Educational Inquiry -- Sect. IV. Rediscovering Sartre: Social Justice and Issues of Audience. 10. Ways of Being at Risk: The Case of Billy Charles Barnett. 11. Beyond Theory and Method: A Case of Critical Storytelling. 12. A Narrative of Enhanced Professionalism: Educational Researchers and Popular Storybooks about Schoolpeople. 13. On Kozol and Sartre and Educational Research as Socially Committed Literature -- Sect. V. Bakhtin and Beyond. 14. Persuasive Writings, Vigilant Readings, and Reconstructed Characters: The Paradox of Trust in Educational Storysharing |
Summary |
"This collection of essays explores the possibilities of studying educational matters with the tools of narrative and literature. Written over the course of the 1980s and 1990s, these essays trace the literary turn in educational research toward forms of literary journalism, critical storytelling, and postmodern narrative. The articles are presented as biographical evidence of the author's ongoing quest for forms of educational research that are well-suited to the enormously complex nature of educational encounters. This collection includes both theoretical dissertations and actual case studies of schools and school people."--BOOK JACKET |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Subject |
Aesthetics.
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Education -- Philosophy.
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Education -- Research -- Social aspects.
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Education -- Research -- Methodology.
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Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Postmodernism and education.
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LC no. |
99015092 |
ISBN |
0820445207 (alk. paper) |
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