- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (2 Jan 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415914019
- ISBN-13: 978-0415914017
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,770,733 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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""Translating the Curriculum is a book I believe to be on the cutting edge of multicultural pedagogy. Susan does an excellent job using her new definition of cultural studies and offers various theories to bring cultural studies to a clear state of consiousness....This book has great potential to direct national attention to cultural studies....By looking at cultural studies in isolation, the mistakes of pedagogy and social theories can be highlighted. This book dies an excellent job of doing just that....I would recommend this book to anyone who believes in equality, does, not, or thinks they should."
-"Contemporary Education
..."an important resource for teacher educators who wish to bring the discources of cultural studies into the field....Susan Edgerton's ideas are important and her grasp of the multiple theories that inform her commitments is substantial."
-"J. Curriculum Studies
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
-"Contemporary Education
..."an important resource for teacher educators who wish to bring the discources of cultural studies into the field....Susan Edgerton's ideas are important and her grasp of the multiple theories that inform her commitments is substantial."
-"J. Curriculum Studies
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Although recent theory in multicultural education has acknowledged what has been called "the new cultural politics of difference," problems concerning what actually passes for multiculturalism have been underexamined. Translating the Curriculum proposes that a new theoretical and practical lens through which to examine multicultural education is necessary and suggests that it may be found in cultural studies. Edgerton looks at pedagogy through structuralist and poststructuralist philosophy and social theory, literary criticism, literature, and autobiography. Using this interdisciplinary approach, notions of marginality, essentialism, identity and translation across difference are explored.
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book represents my own attempt to do a piece of that work. My sense is that there exist problems with translation between disciplinary boundaries and academic departments that will require a mixing of discourses and a more aggressive effort to speak across those boundaries in our classrooms, at our common meetings, and in our writing. Read the first page
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book represents my own attempt to do a piece of that work. My sense is that there exist problems with translation between disciplinary boundaries and academic departments that will require a mixing of discourses and a more aggressive effort to speak across those boundaries in our classrooms, at our common meetings, and in our writing. Read the first page
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Cutting through the binary oppositions
1 April 2001
Format:Hardcover
Dr. Edgerton has done us all a great service by examining the philosophical foundations of multiculturalism and finding the support needed within the broader category of cultural studies. But what is the foundation of cultural studies? What is the point of recognizing difference, a perspective which seems so divisive to so many? Susan makes it clear: Identification is not the same as love; it is in fact narcissism. Only by recognizing difference & non-identity and accepting it deeply can love, as something new on Earth, be born. Thus both cultural studies and much of what we call multiculturalism are founded in the finest impulse the human species has yet created: the transcendental harmony of love. A truly fine book.
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Translating Tolerance to Love
30 Mar 2005
Format:Paperback
Dr. Edgerton has done us all a great service by examining the philosophical foundations of multiculturalism and finding the support needed within the broader category of cultural studies. But what is the foundation of cultural studies? What is the point of recognizing difference, a perspective which seems so divisive to so many? Susan makes it clear: Identification is not the same as love; it is in fact narcissism. Only by recognizing difference & non-identity and accepting it deeply can love, as something new on Earth, be born. Thus both cultural studies and much of what we call multiculturalism are founded in the finest impulse the human species has yet created: the transcendental harmony of love. A truly fine book. Read it today or be marginalized forever.
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