Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (JCACS)
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Call For Book Review Editor
Get PDFThe Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (JCACS) is currently inviting applications for the position of Book Review Editor. The position begins in January 2015. The call for applications will remain open until July 1, 2014
Provoking the very “Idea” of Canadian Curriculum Studies as a Counterpointed Composition
Get PDFI would like to hold off on writing abstract until requested revisions are made and if article is accepted. But here is an overview for reviewer and editors:In what follows, I provide narrative snapshots of some historical and contemporary works produced by curriculum scholars working at Canadian universities over the last decade. To readers and fellow colleagues who are associated (or not) with our larger Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies community, I apologize in advance for the many oversights, misinterpretations, and/or exclusions of your works. Like Chambers (2003), regionalism informs my understanding of the vast and rich intellectual and topographic characteristics of our field. Part of my methodological strategy for the initial research that informs this essay is to limit my references to articles published in curriculum studies journals between 2000 and 2013 by scholars who worked and/or are working at Canadian universities. From there, I selected key texts others or myself have used to teach an introductory course to Canadian curriculum studies either at the University of Ottawa and/or elsewhere. Therefore the narratives I selected are situated, and thus, partial—as if they could ever be otherwise. At the very least, this bibliography of Canadian curriculum studies might provide a future passageway for readers to revisit, add to, challenge, deconstruct, and play with the composition of our intellectual history anew as another documentary synoptic experimentation. I have attempted to structure this essay into three sections. The first section provides an overview of the key texts I engage with graduate students to support them toward becoming more familiar with the historical contexts of our field of study. The second section examines different institutional structures through which curriculum scholars are mobilizing and sharing their research. The last section discusses the differing contemporary “curricular schools of thought” I take up within graduate courses to develop and support what I continue to call A Canadian Curriculum Theory Project
Between Hope and Despair is Resolve: Remembering Roger Simon
Get PDFThe traditional understanding of abstract does not apply in this case. This article is a memoir written in honour of the late Roger Simon. The work seeks to honour both Roger Simon and his body of work
Book Review: Postfeminist education? Girls and the sexual politics of schooling
Get PDFIn, Postfeminist Education?, Jessica Ringrose (2013) powerfully illustrates how postfeminist media discourses have infiltrated Western educational policy and curricula. Ringrose’s book contributes significantly to the field of curriculum studies for the ways that she knits postfeminist media exemplars, poststructural and (post) psychosocial theory, and educational policy together to demonstrate the shortcomings in current policies and practices that shape girls’ experiences in school
Spinning Curriculum Designs at a Crossroads: Big Ideas, Conversations, and Reconciliation
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La méconnaissance du cadre professionnel chez des enseignantes débutantes devant un problème éthique à l’école
No full textCette recherche vise à mettre en évidence certaines dimensions que des enseignantes débutantes en adaptation scolaire examinent devant un problème d’ordre éthique rencontré à l’école. Quatre dimensions éthiques dans un problème de ce type sont considérées : les personnes impliquées, les valeurs en jeu, les principes de conduite professionnelle et le cadre professionnel. Cette recherche s’insère dans une approche qualitative. Par le moyen d’entrevues individuelles semi-dirigées, les dimensions qui ressortaient dans la réflexion de onze participantes devant un problème éthique ont été analysées. Les résultats obtenus dans cette recherche ont permis de faire ressortir que la dimension du cadre professionnel est très peu abordée par les enseignantes participantes. Les lois, les normes de la commission scolaire et de l’école ainsi que la convention collective semblent méconnues. À la lumière de ces résultats, des pistes pour la formation initiale et la période d’insertion professionnelle sont proposées. Ces pistes visent l’amélioration des connaissances qui s’avèrent fondamentales de ce système de régulation, et ce, dès l’entrée en pratique
Duoethnography. Understanding qualitative research & Duoethnography: Promoting personal and societal change within dialogic self-‑study
No full textThe following review serves two purposes: 1) it focuses on a pair of remarkable books on the methodological process of duoethnography; and 2) it provides an example of how this qualitative method expands the boundaries of curriculum studies in dialogic conversation and life writing, bringing forward critical structures of teaching and learning through research method
