Places of Curriculum Making: Narrative Inquiries into Children's Lives in Motion

ISBN-13: 9780857248275 Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited Publication date: 04/26/2011 Series: Advances in Research on Teaching , #14 Pages: 168 Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d) This book documents a radical shift in thinking from focusing on the school as the place where curriculum is made to realizing the ways children and families are engaged as curriculum makers in homes, in communities, and in the spaces in-between, outside of school. The narrative inquiry framing this book investigates the tensions experienced by teachers, children and families as they make curriculum attentive to lives. It draws on a research project involving multiperspectival narrative inquiries spanning four research sites and traces the tensions experienced by children, families and teachers in multiple curriculum making sites and some of the profound identity making and assessment making implications that become visible. Its attention to the relational in narrative inquiry is focuse