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"An Oedipus for Our Time": On the Un-Discipline of Historical Relations
No full textThis paper explores the psychoanalytic concept of the Oedipus conflict as representing ambivalent and fragile tensions between generations. While the Oedipal conflict typically refers to the young child's ambivalent feelings towards the parents, here I consider how Oedipus is reprised in adolescence with respect to markers of history. The paper considers the unconscious uses of historical representation in the making of a self and suggests why teens can be so ready to dismiss the past, sometimes toying with its destruction. The analysis is grounded in a current event that the author reads as, "an Oedipus for our time," and that gives rise to the difficult question of generational conflict for history education
(Post)modern Teachers' Constructivist Cosmopolitan Selves: Making Sense of Soul
No full textThis inquiry is an examination of collective narratives of early childhood teachers' writing related to theories of social participation, feminity(ies), critical perspectives of Developmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP), and social justice issues. The teachers' narratives are drawn from their responses to prompts provided in a Master's course: Social Justice in Early Childhood Education. After the coursework was completed, I spent time with the teachers' texts, using a dialogic approach to thinking through and responding to my own readings of their narratives. The analysis exposes the temporal underpinnings of developmentally based teaching work and finds articulations of the matter and substance of soul from the perspectives of these teachers. This paper uncovers corporeal aspects of teachers' lives that clash with a socially constructed orientation towards time. Suggestions are made for continued dialogue and "critical vigilance" (Popkowitz & Bloch, 2001) of structures of power that impact the personal and professional lives of teachers
Translating Water
No full textThis paper is an exploration of the nature of translation and its pedagogical and ecological import. While translation necessarily betrays the original by being necessarily unfaithful to it, it also betrays the original in the sense of showing us something of it
Audience Incorporated (Inc.): Youth Cultural Production and the New Media
No full textChanges in access to technology have facilitated new conditions for young people to shoot, cut, and mix multimodal texts, and the emergence of the Internet as a "home theatre" for a global audience has enabled youth to communicate across borders and across the street. Alongside the outpouring of youth expression, a newly empowered youth audience has emerged as the newest actor in the mediasphere, helping to determine and create content and seemingly balance out increasing corporate control, the other major development in our mediascapes. In this article, I argue that differing conceptions of audience"”incorporated into the act of media creation"”produce different outcomes, that there are strong residual communicational and cultural elements in contemporary "participatory" media production, and that as young people are drawn into new forms of media practice, they draw substantially on a pre-existing repertoire of cultural meanings
JCT Today
No full textPinar links the circumstances of JCT today with those surrounding its founding 30 years ago. Then the field's paradigm shift constituted its internal crisis, a shift precipitated by the 1960s National Curriculum Reform movement. Those circumstances called for a journal committed to the reconceptualization of curriculum studies. Today the field faces another set of difficult circumstances, intensified by the Bush Administration's effort to silence dissent by legislating evidence-based research. Coupled with internal tensions, specifically those associated with identity politics and social ameliorism, present circumstances conspire to produce a presentistic and fragmenting field. Pinar recommends that once again JCT look to the future. This time, however, the route to the future lies in the past