The essays in this volume bring together leading-edge scholars to illuminate the work of William E. Doll, Jr., as a key curriculum thinker of global impact, and introduce his work and influence to new generations of scholars, teachers, and students of education. Drawing on their individual contexts, contributors cover a range of topics and themes, including engagement with pragmatism, the work of John Dewey, and the inclusion of post-modern, chaos, and complexity theories to education and curriculum. Advancing our understanding and conversation of existing problems and possibilities in education, this collection serves as both an homage to Doll and a call for action and consideration of what matters in education.
Author(s): Mollly Quinn (editor)
Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2018
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction—From “The Echo of God’s Laughter”: The Generative and Generous Gifts of William E. Doll, Jr., to Curriculum Studies
Part I Of Influence, Inspiration, and Intellectual Adventure
2 Dynamics of a Scholarly Life: Conversational Complexity in Pursuit of the Mysterium Tremendum
3 Toward the Reenchantment of Curriculum: A Study on William Doll’s Post-modern Curriculum Theory
4 Education as Liberating Experience: Bill Doll’s Scholarship and Contested Legacies of Euro-American Curriculum Theories From Descartes Onwards
5 Thoroughly (Post-Modern) Billy
6 Travels With Bill in Search of America (and Beyond)
Part II Of Engagement, Immersion, and Transformative Experience
7 The . . . Readiness . . . To Be “All Ears”
8 Engaging Engaging: Topological Reflections Prompted by Bill Doll
9 Playful Engagement With Difference
10 A Recursive Path to Infinity
Part III Of Play, Praxis, and Pedagogical Grace
11 Learning the Play of Language: Hermeneutic Acts of Interpretation While Watching Bill Doll Dance
12 A Life With Bill Doll: A Journey in Praxis, Patience, and Play
13 An Extraordinary Pedagogical Figure: Bill Doll as a Susung
14 The Pedagogical Complexity of Story
Part IV Of Method, Mystery, and Visionary Magic
15 Circling the Known
16 An Ethics of Free Responsible Action: Examining Doll’s Struggling With Spirituality
17 Addressing “Curriculum” as an Inspirited Letter
18 The Pedagogy of the King of Chaos in a Post-modern Era
Part V Of School, Society, and the Sacred in Scholarly Tradition
19 Post-modern Curriculum: Reviving the Vision
20 Complex Conversations on Curriculum: Ghosts and the Five C’s Revisited
21 “Wrestling” With Complexity: Bill Doll’s “Dancing Curriculum”
22 Living Poetically: The Pedagogy of William E. Doll, Jr.
23 Confronting Life and Death: Reflections on Living the Spirit of Education
24 Afterword
List of Contributors
Index
