Public Acts: Disruptive Readings on Making Curriculum Public (Reconstructing the Public Sphere in Curriculum Studies)

As this book documents local, specific, and contextualized acts of resistance and offers a detailed analysis of varied forms of public literacies, it functions as a template to inform and inspire resistant practices in diverse communities. Book Cover......Page 1 Half-Title......Page 2 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgements......Page 8 Foreword......Page 10 Introduction Making Knowledge in Public: Overturning an Audience......Page 15 1 Poverty, Policy, and Research: Toward a Dialogic Investigation......Page 25 2 Desire and Betrayal in Community-Based Research......Page 40 3 Waadookodaading Indigenous Language Immersion: Personal Reflections on the Gut-Wrenching Start-Up Years......Page 57 4 Trials and Tribulations for Social Justice......Page 69 5 Theater Forum at the Urban Odyssey School: A Case Study......Page 83 6 Write it, Get it: Motivating Youth Writers......Page 93 7 Take Two on Media and Race......Page 103 8 “When I close my classroom door...”: Private Places in Public Spaces......Page 116 9 Working between University and Community: Shifting the Focus, Shifting the Practice......Page 136 10 How Research Can Be Made to Mean: Feminist Ethnography at the Limits of Representation......Page 153 11 How New Yorkers Said No to War: An Experiment in Message and Action......Page 160 12 Encounters with Memory and Mourning: Public Art as Collective Pedagogy of Reconciliation......Page 178 Contributor Biographies......Page 203 Index......Page 207 Edited By Francisco Ibáñez-carrasco And Erica R. Meiners ; Foreword By Suzanne De Castell. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web. This project began as an attempt to collect articles written by activist educators, researchers, and artists who are involved in local projects for social change.