Pedagogies of the Imagination: Mythopoetic Curriculum in Educational PracticeTimothy Leonard, Peter Willis I have long admired the mythopoetic tradition in curriculum studies. That admiration followed from my experience as a high-school teacher of English in a wealthy suburb of New York City at the end of the 1960s. A “dream” job—I taught four classes of 15–20 students during a nine-period day—in a “dream” suburb (where I could afford to reside only by taking a room in a retired teacher’s house), many of these often Ivy-League-bound students had everything but meaningful lives. This middle-class, Midwestern young teacher was flabbergasted. In one sense, my academic life has been devoted to understanding that searing experience. Matters of meaning seemed paramount in the curriculum field to which Paul Klohr introduced me at Ohio State. Klohr assigned me the work of curriculum theorists such as James B. Macdonald. Like Timothy Leonard (who also studied with Klohr at Ohio State) and Peter Willis, Macdonald (1995) understood that school reform was part of a broader cultural and political crisis in which meaning is but one casualty. In the mythopoetic tradition in curriculum studies, scholars labor to understand this crisis and the conditions for the reconstruction of me- ing in our time, in our schools. |
Contents
The Place of the Mythopoetic | 10 |
Reconciliation and Imaginal | 31 |
The Production of Education | 52 |
Mythopoetic Dimensions of Professional | 65 |
Imagination and Mythopoesis in the Science Curriculum | 83 |
Learning Through Creativity | 92 |
Autobiography and Poetry Peter Hilton | 107 |
The Resilience of Soul Patricia Cranton | 125 |
Spiritual Grounding and Adult Education | 169 |
Ignatian Spirituality as Mythopoesis | 177 |
Mythopoetic Spaces in the Transformation of Counselors | 189 |
A Case Study | 203 |
Capacity and Currere | 223 |
How Waldorf Schools | 231 |
Mythopoetic Pedagogy | 244 |
The Mythopoetic Challenge Timothy Leonard and Peter Willis | 265 |
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