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Book SynopsisThis book has won the O.L. Davis, Jr. Outstanding Book Award 2015 from the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum (AATC) Curriculum as Spaces: Aesthetics, Community, and the Politics of Place can be viewed as a holistic approach to education, conservation, and community development that uses place as an integrating context for learning. It argues that curriculum and place is a much deeper subject, with roots in aesthetics, community, and politics that go beyond the individual and profoundly address the formation of our current belief system.
Despite the unique efforts described in this book to address the curriculum of space, major issues persist in our educational system. First, the rigor of curriculum studies is not usually applied to this complex field that encompasses philosophy, aesthetics, geography, social theory, and history. Second, the conflict caused by studying the place without contextualizing it within the larger social milieu ignores
Table of ContentsContents: The Transactional Spaces of Curriculum: Rethinking «Community» and Re-Engaging Educators – The Aesthetic Moment in Education – Disrupting our Imagined Communities: The Role of Ritual in Promoting Cosmopolitan Curriculum Communities – Re-Assessing and Re-Capturing Space Through Radical Curriculum – Urban Spaces – Curriculum as Transactional Aesthetic.
