Curriculum Fragments

<p>This book builds upon Louise Berman’s late 20th-century framing of life processes to inform school curriculum by proposing a new curriculum project that extends and reframes Berman in and beyond schooling.</p><p>Using the well-established curriculum theorizing method <i>currere</i> the author focuses on seven life processes including knowing loving losing growing forgiving relating and hoping. Each of these is approached using currere-oriented autobiographical fragments – stories from the author’s own lived experiences in education and life – that illuminate the educational curricular and pedagogical possibilities of each of the seven processes using past present and future perspectives which the author calls curriculum fragments. These curriculum fragments are tied to historical and contemporary curriculum theorizing and educational theory and practice in order to suggest considerations for movement for the reader scholar educator and leader. It ultimately asks whether humanity can create a joyful beautiful and just curriculum of life for each and every person through schooling and beyond and consequently a better world built on love.</p><p>Focusing on real-life experiences in school and life that have educational implications and that can inform the curriculum the field of curriculum studies and the act of curriculum theorizing this book will appeal to curriculum scholars interested in using currere understanding patterns of use participating in the production of curriculum and educational knowledge in the field and perceiving and using curriculum theorizing as an integral part of their daily work.</p>