Like Letters in Running Water: A Mythopoetics of Curriculum (Studies in Curriculum Theory Series) - Hardcover

Doll, Mary Aswell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805829849 ISBN 13: 9780805829846

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

Like Letters in Running Water explores ways in which fiction (prose, drama, poetry, myth, fairytale) yields transformative insights for educational theory and practice. Through a series of intensely original, powerful essays drawing on curriculum theory, literary analysis, psychology, and feminist theory and practice, Doll seeks to confront a commonly held bias that reading literary fictions is "mere" entertainment (not a learning experience). She suggests that fiction has immense teaching power because it connects readers with their alliances within themselves and this connection attends to social, outer issues addressed by traditional pedagogies with greater, deeper awareness. Her elaboration in this book of the concept of currere--the lived experience of curriculum--through literature, drama, and myth is a major contribution to the field of curriculum theory.

About this title

Synopsis:

Explores how all types of fiction yield insights for educational theory and practice. Drawing on curriculum theory, literary analysis, psychology and feminism, the author argues that fiction has great teaching power as it connects readers with their alliances within themselves.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0805829849
• ISBN 13: 9780805829846
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 270