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This book uses a nine-year experience of teaching world mythology to art students in order to discuss why and how such ancient stories provide significance today. Myth’s weird images and metaphors recall Wyrd (Word), the goddess of the cauldron. Students can be guided into the cauldron of mythic language to feel the stirring of new awareness of what it really means to be human. Psychologically, myth offers insights into family relations, memory, imagination, and otherness. Ecological insights from myth teach the connection among human-animal-plant relations and the organicism of all life forms. Cosmological insights from myth surprisingly echo findings in new science, with its emphasis on quantum mechanics, force fields, black holes, subatomic particles, chaos, and the possibilities of time travel. Two areas often considered completely opposite -- myth and science—actually reflect one another, since both propose theories, albeit in different ways. Myth cannot be laughed away as “mere” fabula, since, like science and psychology, it has long explored adventures into unseen, unknown worlds that yield necessary knowledge about the place of humans in the scheme of things big and small. The “more” of myth will be of interest to teachers and students of curriculum studies, to those seeking to go beyond Oedipus and Gutenberg, and to readers who know that all forms of life (including fingernails and rocks) are wondrous, diverse, alive, capable, purposive, and necessary.

Myth -- Study and teaching. --- Myth. --- Religion --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Philosophy & Religion --- Mythology, Comparative --- Fine Arts - General --- Mythology --- Education. --- Critical pedagogy. --- Study and teaching. --- Critical humanism in education --- Radical pedagogy --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Myths --- Education --- Art education. --- Arts Education. --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Art --- Art education --- Education, Art --- Art schools --- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation --- Legends --- Religions --- Folklore --- Gods --- Myth --- Critical theory --- Popular education --- Transformative learning --- Creativity and Arts Education.

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Triple Takes on Curricular Worlds is a groundbreaking exploration of curriculum studies that offers a new understanding of the "selves" educators bring to work. Three educators from three different disciplines write on issues not usually forefronted in curriculum studies: boundaries, disgrace, distance, fear, forgiveness, light, and mothers. Their gendered voices give new meaning to the idea of curriculum to include that which courses through their lives in the classroom, in the public sphere, and in their nighttime personas. Each writer demonstrates to what extent teaching must interact with living in the twenty-first century.Writing from the perspectives of medicine, elementary education, and literature, the authors examine what it is like to live and work in a multidisciplined, multilayered world. Their chapters, born out of their life experiences, critique the serious issues of our time—terrorism, technology, power, and privilege—hoping to stimulate readers to think about their own public and private selves.

Critical pedagogy --- Interdisciplinary approach in education --- Curriculum planning --- Curriculum development --- Education --- Instructional systems --- Planning --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Study and teaching (Graduate) --- Curricula --- Design