Curricular and Architectural Encounters with W.G. Sebald

<p>This book engages with the writings of W.G. Sebald mediated by perspectives drawn from curriculum and architecture to explore the theme of unsettling complacency and confront difficult knowledge around trauma discrimination and destruction. </p><p>Moving beyond overly instrumentalist and reductive approaches the authors combine disciplines in a scholarly fashion to encourage readers to stretch their understandings of <i>currere</i>. The chapters exemplify important timely and complicated conversations centred on ethical response and responsibility in order to imagine a more just and aesthetically experienced world. In the analysis of <i>BILDUNG </i>as human formation the book illuminates the pertinent lessons to be learned from the works of Sebald and provokes further investigations into the questions of memory grief and limits of language. Through its juxtaposition of curriculum and architecture and using the prose of Sebald as a prism the book revitalizes questions about education and ethics probes the unsettling of complacency and enables conversation around difficult knowledge and ethical responsibility as well as offering hope and resolve.</p><p>An important intervention in standard approaches to understanding <i>currere</i> this book provides essential context for scholars and educators with interests in the history of education curriculum architectural education and practice studies memory studies narrative research Sebaldian studies and educational philosophy. </p>