Provoking Curriculum Encounters Across Educational Experience

Teresa Strong-Wilson is Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education in the Faculty of Education at McGill University, Canada. Christian Ehret is an Assistant Professor at McGill University in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, Canada. David Lewkowich is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta, Canada. Sandra Chang-Kredl is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education at Concordia University, Canada.

1 Introduction

2 Currere Tales: Journeying as Pilgrims to the (An)archive

I SPACES

3 A Poor Curriculum in Urban Space: An Atlas for Ethical Relationality

4 Technotheology Curricular Spaces: Encountering the Circus, Cathedral, and Bridge

5 Experimentation in Afterschool U’s "Movie Maker Studios": Unexpected Moments of Contingency, Teacher-Becoming, and Joy

II PLURALITY

6 Singing at the Burrard Inlet: An Inquiry into the Reverberations of Sounding in the Natural World

7 Provoking Spiritual Encounters: Dancing with Spirit

8 Locating Who (I Am) in What (I) Do: An Autoethnographic Encountering of Relational Curriculum

9 Toward a Bountiful Curriculum: An Intercultural Encounter with Al-Farabi’s Pedagogy of Proximity (Ittisal)



III INTENSITIES



10 The Curriculum of Home Things

11 Close Encounters of the Pedagogical Kind: Science-Fictioning a Curriculum-to-Come

12 The Minor Gesture and Curriculum Studies



IV CHARGES

13 Resistance and Resonance: Postcolonial Texts and Social Justice Conversations in ELA Classrooms in Rural Saskatchewan

14 Love, Loss, and the Horizons of Human Becoming

15 Conceptualizing and Enacting Sensational Currere: Attuning to the Embodied Essence in Autobiographical Curriculum Inquiry



16 Provoking Curriculum (Studies): Intellectual Interpolations



List of Contributors



Index