Line Dancing
An Atlas of Geography Curriculum and Poetic Possibilities
Published on 18. July 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIX, 149 pages
978-0-8204-4584-7 (ISBN)
Description
The underlying premise of Line Dancing is that how we write the world (through geography or curriculum) affects and reflects in the same instant how we understand and live in the world - our words and worlds perform a mingling dance of signification. Various textual practices in Line Dancing demonstrate the performative possibilities of words on a page. Poststructural semiotics, the blurring of the line between reading and writing, recent critiques within academic and curricular geography, and an inclusion of embodied knowing all play a part in the line dancing within this atlas. The words, legends, maps, postcards, and poems in Line Dancing present possibilities for embodied approaches to (re)writing the world of curriculum theory.
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The Author: Wanda Hurren is Assistant Professor of Curriculum in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina, Canada. She received her Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her research and teaching interests are in curriculum theory, textual practices, and embodied knowing. Her poetry and articles have been published in several literary and professional journals.