Beschreibung:
This primer for prospective and practicing teachers asks students to question the historical present and their relation to it, and in so doing, reflect on their own understandings of what it means to teach, to study, to educate and to become educated in the present moment in the places we inhabit.
Part I. The Problem That Is the Present 1. Curriculum Theory 2. From Autobiography to Allegory Part II. The Regressive Moment: Reactivating the Past 3. The Harlem Renaissance 4. Mortal Educational Combat Part III. The Progressive Moment: The Future in the Present 5. The Dissolution of Subjectivity 6. The Future in the Past Part IV. The Analytic Moment: Understanding the Present 7. Anti-Intellectualism and Complicated Conversation Part V. The Synthetical Moment 8. Subjective and Social Survival