Magic everywhere: Mapping the Disney curriculum

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Jennifer A. Sandlin

Jennifer A. Sandlin is an Associate Professor in the Education, Culture, and Society program in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, where she teaches courses focused on consumption and education, public pedagogy, and curriculum theory. Her research focuses on the intersections of education, learning, and consumption, as well as on understanding and theorizing public pedagogy. Her work has been published in the Journal of Curriculum & Pedagogy, Adult Education Quarterly, International Journal of Lifelong Education, Qualitative Inquiry, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Curriculum Inquiry, Studies in the Education of Adults, and Teachers College Record. She edited, with Peter McLaren, Critical Pedagogies of Consumption (Routledge 2010); with Brian Schultz and Jake Burdick, Handbook of Public Pedagogy (Routledge 2010); and with Jake Burdick and Michael O’Malley, Problematizing Public Pedagogy (Routledge 2014). She is currently co-editor of Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy and currently serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Adult Education Quarterly, International Journal of Lifelong Education, Adult Basic Education and Literacy, and International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Jennifer received a B.A. in English Literature from Millsaps College, an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico, and a Ph.D. in Adult Education from The University of Georgia.

Julie C. Garlen

Julie C. Garlen, Ed.D., is an Associate Professor of Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Georgia Southern University, where she supervises doctoral students in Curriculum Studies and teaches courses in Early Childhood Education, Curriculum, and Inquiry. Her most recent article appeared in Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. Her co-authored works in cultural curriculum studies have appeared in Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies; Pedagogy, Cultural, and Society; and The Journal of Consumer Culture. Her most recent essays can be found in A Curriculum of Place: Understandings Emerging through the Southern Mist, edited by William M. Reynolds (Peter Lang 2013) and A Curriculum of Imagination in an Era of Standardization: An Imaginative Dialogue with Maxine Greene and Paulo Freire, edited by Robert Lake (Information Age 2013). In 2010, she was the lead editor of Engaging the Complexities and Possibilities of Hope: Utterances of Curriculum and Pedagogy’s Past, Present, and Future Becky Stodghill and Ming Fang He (Educators International Press). She is the founder and co-chair of the Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative, an annual academic conference sponsored by Georgia Southern University’s College of Education. She has written extensively on popular culture, critical pedagogy, and curriculum theory, and has served on the review board for a number of regional and national journals.