ERIC Number: EJ966026
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Publication Date: 2012-Jun
Pages: 20
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Reference Count: 36
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1857
Representation and the Straightjacketing of Curriculum's Complicated Conversation: The Pedagogy of "Pontypool"'s Minor Language
Wallin, Jason James
Educational Philosophy and Theory, v44 n4 p366-385 Jun 2012
Reconceptualist and post-reconceptualist curriculum scholars have drawn upon the notion of a complicated curriculum conversation as a means to describe the imbricated, pluralist, and eclectic character of curriculum theorizing. Insofar as this curriculum conversation is accomplished via language however, it remains wed to a particular representational logic restricting what might be thought. This essay explores the question of what it means to theorize curriculum when the very idea of a complicated curriculum conversation begins to fall into cliche. Mobilizing the philosophical thought of Gilles Deleuze, this essay analyzes three representational commitments of contemporary curriculum theorizing, addressing how each are inadequate for the theorization of difference or the instantiation of the radically new. Against the implicit commitment to conformity alive in the curriculum field, this essay posits an ethics of disidentification exemplified via Bruce McDonald's horror film "Pontypool." It is via such a tactic of productive disidentification, this essay claims, that thought might be unfettered from the orthodoxies of common sense, becoming in this way more adequate for opening spaces unanticipated by contemporary representational regimes.
Descriptors: Language Styles, Educational Theories, Ethics, Curriculum, Educational Philosophy, Films, Discourse Analysis
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