This book revolves around curriculum making, reciprocal learning, and the best-loved self. It draws on extensive school-based studies conducted with teachers in the United States, China, and Canada, and weaves in experiences from other cross-national projects, keynote addresses, archival research, and editorial work. The elucidation of the ‘best-loved self’ drives home the point that teachers are more than the subject matter they teach: they are students’ role models and allies. Curriculum making and reciprocal learning relationships enrich teachers’ and students’ being and becoming as they live curriculum alongside one another―with the goal of more satisfying lives held firmly in view.
Author(s): Cheryl J. Craig
Series: Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 171
City: Cham
Foreword
Contents
List of Figures
1 Curriculum Making 1
Curriculum Making
The Curriculum-Teaching Puzzle
The Primacy of Teachers
Curriculum
Curriculum Commonplaces
Teacher Images
Teacher-as-Curriculum-Implementer & Teacher-as-Curriculum-Maker
Curriculum Making in Action
Daryl Wilson (1997–2017)
Bernadette Lohle (1998–2011)
Helen Macalla (2008–2011)
Anna Dean (2004–2010)
Summary
References
2 Curriculum Making 2
Curriculum Making in China
Curriculum Making Backdrop in China
Commonplaces of Curriculum in China
Curriculum Making in China
Commingled Understandings of the Images of Teaching from American and Chinese Educational Milieus
References
3 Reciprocal Learning
Reciprocal Learning in My Scholarship
Reciprocal Learning After the Fact
Reciprocal Learning from Diverse Others
JeongAe You and Suhak Oh, South Korea
Yali Zou, University of Houston
Yuhua Bu, East China Normal University
Reciprocal Learning in Connelly and Xu’s Articles
References
4 The Best-Loved Self
The Best-Loved Self
Encountering the Best-Loved Self
Probing the Best-Loved Self
Echoes of the Best-Loved Self in Others’ Scholarship
The Best-Loved Self in My Research Participants’ Stories
School Reform Studies
T. P. Yaeger Middle School
Cochrane Academy School Reform
Teacher Attrition Study
Anna Dean
Ashley Thomas
China Study Abroad Study
Shi Tan
Korea-US Comparison Study
Helen Macalla
My Best-Loved Self
References
Afterword
References
Index
