Product Description: Curriculum Studies Guidebooks treat the (Post)reconceptualization of curriculum studies. The literature reviewed in this volume reflects current issues and discussions taking place in education. This volume is about the intersections among curriculum studies and aesthetics; spirituality; cosmopolitanism; ecology; cultural studies; postcolonialism; poststructuralism; and psychoanalytic theory...read more

Product Description: Scholars and musicians from many different backgrounds will find this book helpful as it deals with psychic problems in both professions. This book might help scholars and musicians to find a way out of their psychic dilemmas. From classical musicians to rock stars, from curriculum theorists to music teachers, from anthropologists to philosophers, this book takes the reader through a rocky intellectual terrain to explore what happens when one can no longer play or work...read more

Product Description: This book raises questions around pedagogy and illness. Morris explores two large issues that run through the text. What does the ill body teach? What does the teacher do through the ill body? The body has something to teach while teaching through the ill body...read more

Product Description: Marla Morris explores Jewish intellectuals in society and in the university using psychoanalytic theory. Morris examines Otherness as experienced by Jewish intellectuals who grapple with anti-Semitism within the halls of academia...read more

Product Description: It’s been 25 years since Fred and Corinne McGuire severed all ties but one with the quiet community of Bentley. Their ancestral inn has been left to the young Mallory McGuire, who claims to be their daughter. Why didn’t the couple tell their old, dear friends about the long-awaited arrival of a daughter? Does Harrison Kingsley know the truth? Is that why he’s pressuring Mallory to sell the inn and leave Bentley? Why does the newspaper editor believe the truth may very well be buried with his eldest son? Is attorney Chandler Lynnwood orchestrating the fraud of impersonation that will bring great wealth to himself and Mallory? Is Joe Preston the only one who has Mallory’s best interest at heart? Or has Joe been fooled along with the rest of Bentley? And, lastly, there’s the woman who made a split second decision at the age of 16, a decision that is the mysterious bond that connects three families...read more

Product Description: Difficult Memories: Talk in a (Post) Holocaust Era attempts a difficult cross-cultural discussion. These scholars agree that the Holocaust is not just in the past – it is with us in memory. Professors and students alike – whether European, American, or Canadian, or whether Holocaust survivors – second or third generation Jews «after» the event are affected/effected by this haunting memory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: These original essays offer new perspectives for science educators, curriculum theorists, and cultural critics on science education, French post-structural thought, and the science debates. Included in this book are chapters on the work of Bruno Latour, Michel Serres, and Jean Baudrillard, plus chapters on postmodern approaches to science education and critiques of modern scientific assumptions in curriculum development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: How We Work is a collection of essays by writers from across the disciplines on the ways they produce work. Each writer offers a description of the processes and quirks of putting thoughts into form. Some of the essays are humorous, confessing to the ways writers confront the terror of the blank page...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)