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Poetics of Curriculum, Poetics of Life

An Exploration of Poetry in the Context of Selves, Schools, and Society

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Authors:
  1. Mary-Elizabeth Vaquer

    1. Georgia Southern University, USA

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  • Poetics of Curriculum, Poetics of Life offers a critical look at how poetry is studied in schools and how these practices of studying poetry give poetry its cultural identity
  • Poetics of Curriculum, Poetics of Life considers poetry’s relationship to schools and society and evaluates how reading and writing poetry can be a transformative and emancipatory individual experience
  • In addition to exploring how poetry is situated in the current classroom climate in American public schools, Poetics of Curriculum, Poetics of Life also concisely and uniquely examines how poetry aligns with curriculum studies

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Prelude

    • Mary-Elizabeth Vaquer
    Pages 1-18
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  3. Poetry and Curriculum Align

    • Mary-Elizabeth Vaquer
    Pages 19-44
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  4. Poetry in a Standardized and Commodified World

    • Mary-Elizabeth Vaquer
    Pages 45-69
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  5. Revisiting the Outdated

    • Mary-Elizabeth Vaquer
    Pages 71-94
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  6. Minimalism, Creative Writing, and The Reader/Writer Connection

    • Mary-Elizabeth Vaquer
    Pages 95-112
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  7. Art as Experience through Dwelling, Lingering, and Loafing

    • Mary-Elizabeth Vaquer
    Pages 113-138
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  8. Friends in Low Places

    • Mary-Elizabeth Vaquer
    Pages 139-175
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  9. Back Matter

    Pages 177-182
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About this book

Through multiple lenses of curriculum studies, the author explores how poetry is situated in the pedagogical world. Her work aims to illuminate how poetry is studied in schools and how these practices of studying poetry give poetry its cultural identity. Each chapter is guided by insight from John Dewey’s Art as Experience which promotes explorations of opportunities for students to have profound experiences with poetry and art in schools. The purpose of this book is not to offer a prescription for teachers to use in their classrooms. This is not an outline regarding how someone should include poetry in a lesson plan. Rather, the author explores why poetry is important in our lives and how poetry can contribute to opening avenues for new possibilities through imagination and transformation based on phenomenological experience and scholarship. She explores poetry through Dewey’s notion of aesthetics across diverse aspects of meaning making through poetry in a contemporary context. She also explores the influences that poetry has on the curriculum of our lives, and the influence that our lived curriculum has on the future of poetry.   

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  • Georgia Southern University, USA

    Mary-Elizabeth Vaquer

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