Thinking about and Enacting Curriculum in "frames of War"

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Rahat Naqvi, Hans Smits
Lexington Books, Jan 1, 2012 - Education - 163 pages
Rahat Naqvi and Hans Smits' edited collection, Thinking about and Enacting Curriculum in "Frames of War" is centered on the theme of how the current global order creates precarious conditions for human life. The contributors respond to the challenges Judith Butler posed about the fragility of life and questions about how we apprehend, and take up ethically, our responsibilities for those who are considered "Other." The overarching objective of the book is the meaning of a call to ethics, and how discussion of framing and frames is a provocation to think about our responsibilities as curriculum scholars and practitioners.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Challenging the Frames of Curriculum
9
Facing the War in Afghanistan
21
ReFraming UnNeighbourly Love Haunting Inquiry Perfectibility
39
Sound Curriculum Recognizing the Field
63
Narrative Reconstructions Broken Frames
83
Depicting and Framing the Trauma of Another
99
Teaching Social Justice in English Language Arts
115
Global Justice Education as a Pedagogy of Loss
139
Index
157
About the Authors
161
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Rahat Naqvi is an associate professor in the area of Language and Diversity Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Calgary. She holds a PhD in Didactics of Languages and Cultures from the Université de la Sorbonne, Paris. She has taught in various international settings that include the National Institute for Oriental Languages, Université de la Sorbonne, Paris and most recently at the University of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany. Dr. Naqvi is the Associate Director of the Language Research Center at the University of Calgary. Her focused fields of expertise are primarily in language and literacy pedagogy, identity issues and emergent literacy.

Hans Smits recently retired from the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary where he served as Associate Dean with responsibilities for teacher education. His areas of teaching and writing were in social studies education, curriculum theory, and teacher education.

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