Curriculum as playlist: Responses of synopsis and expansion

ABSTRACT

Do you remember boom-boxes with two decks so a personalized playlist could be recorded onto a cassette tape? Perhaps you received a playlist from a friend, family member, or lover? In this project, 14 colleagues first compiled and shared their curriculum playlists—their favorite texts/performances about curriculum including some of their own texts/performances. Then, they composed responses, expressed in music, dance, poetry, narrative, ruminations, and drama, that annotate, trouble, riff on, and respond to one another's playlists in order to investigate how the art of (re)mixing offers metaphorical possibilities for artfully making curriculum (poiesis). How might the art of mixing be a way of mediating understandings of scholarly lives contingent on histories, politics, and psychologies of knowledge?

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Notes

1. The events referenced in this paragraph represent only a small number of events that occurred in North America and throughout the world during 2016 and early 2017. For some context about these particular events, see Battle for Aleppo (2016), Smith (2017), and White (2016). While such events are not new or unique, a bolder protectionist and right wing rhetoric has emerged in relation to events involving people who are marginalized: for example, people of Islamic faith, people of color, immigrants/refugees, and those who are members of the LGBTQ community.

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