Thinking about and Enacting Curriculum in “Frames of War”, edited
by Rahat Naqvi and Hans Smits, responds to the challenges Judith
Butler posed about the precariousness of life and questions about how
we apprehend, and take up ethically, our responsibilities for those
who are considered “Other.” The notion of enframing asks us to
consider what conditions our understanding of others, and how we open
up what curriculum concepts and theories mean in the contexts of
complex conditions for educational practices, such as recent wars,
which have brought to forefront critical questions of human
recognition and the precariousness of the conditions in which human
flourishing is possible. An overarching objective of this book is the
meaning of a call to ethics, and how discussion of framing and frames
is a provocation to think about our responsibilities as curriculum
scholars and practitioners. The authors take up the limits of
knowledge, and present the challenge to curriculum theory to think in
terms of not just understanding the frames through which we apprehend
the Other, but also how we might re-frame our thinking as a radical
call to responsibility. Each chapter in Smits and Naqvi’s Thinking
about and Enacting Curriculum in “Frames of War” illustrates these
concepts in diverse ways, but with common interest and concern,
considering how curriculum is and ought to be fundamentally engaged
with re-thinking our frames of apprehension.
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ISBN
9780739166468
Publisert
2012
Utgiver
Bloomsbury USA
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Antall sider
174
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