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The position of Assistant Dean for the School of Continuing Education requires an individual who has experience working with public or private schools, has a strong track record in new program development, and an equally strong entrepreneurial drive. The position requires that the individual work with school districts, charter and independent schools and the Pennsylvania Department of Education to provide online degree options, onsite courses/degrees and special programs. This individual should… Continue

EducationalInsights.ca presents Performing Repair, a special issue edited by Marla Buchanan, Marv Westwood, and Richard Harrison. This special issue of Educational Insights examines performing Repair as a recovery of the self, inspired by the p… Continue

Passing A Strange and Wonderful Curriculum Notes and comment on Yi-Fu Tuan 1993, Passing Strange and Wonderful Can one create an e-curriculum, a montage of quotes, via blogging that in turn helps us to consider Canadian curriculum theorizing as something strange and wonderful, both at the same time? How might we engage such ditigal performances? The penalty for poor performance is not a dock in pay or social ostracism, but rather the nagging feeling of having missed a cue—of a certain awkward… Continue

Born Digital: Contemporary Literary Art and Education & Digital Generation: Consciousness & Digital Symbiosis Teresa Dobson, Academic Editor Michael Boyce, Managing Editor Educationalinsights.ca, an online, international, peer-reviewed, education journal based at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, is looking for research, critical theory, electronic literature and rich media pieces that investigate, represent, and reflect upon the… Continue

The latest issue of Educational Insights is available. Educational Insights — Slow Fuse: Revisiting Arts-based Research. Researchers explore the practices and issues of arts-based inquiry for educational research and knowledge mobilization. Featuring articles on playbuilding to investigate bullying; a/r/tographic ritual inquiry; an interrupted performance as a site of inquiry; and the ethical challenges of arts-based research and representation. Issue Editors Lynn Fels and Rita Irwin invite you… Continue

Dear Curriculum Theory Family, Joe L. Kincheloe, a leading scholar in our field, died of a heart attack last Friday, 19 December 2008, in Jamaica. Please see the posting by his wife Shirley Steinberg at the link below. Although I only met Joe one time, I sensed an immediate kinship on a number of levels. I am sure more news about celebrations of his life and legacy will be announced in the weeks ahead. Our thoughts are with Shirley and Joe's four children. May his work continue to flourish!… Continue

Teachers need to be learners who engage in the learning process for themselves, are willing to refine their thinking and practice, to listen to each other as they formulate ideas and understandings, and are open to learn from errors. (Lock, 2006, pp. 668-669) Toot! Toot! Toot! A kid at the front of the cart yells at the train’s horn, “Be quiet! BE QUIET!” I am on my way this morning to downtown Toronto to meet up with my wife and two sons. Three weeks is way too long to go without seeing them—n… Continue