1st Edition
Curriculum as Confession The Promise of Teaching for Selfhood and Truth
By Christopher M. Cruz
Copyright 2025
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book offers a philosophical inquiry into the idea of curriculum as confession and considers how it can help us answer questions of justice, selfhood, and truth. It connects the field of curriculum studies and continental philosophy in order to arrive at new ways of thinking through the concept and act of confession. Utilising a phenomenological and deconstructive approach to thinking about... Read more
1. Curriculum Theorizing as a Confessional Event 2. Phenomenology, Deconstruction, and Curriculum Studies 3. The Violence of (Curricular) Conceptualization 4. “A Confessing Animal”: Governmentality, Subjectivity, and Truth-Telling 5. There Is Always Someone Else: (Cir)Confession and the Call of Curriculum 6. Praise and the Opening of Curriculum
Biography
Christopher M. Cruz is an English teacher at The Paideia School and an independent scholar in the field of curriculum studies, USA.
