The Passionate Teacher and the Curriculum Police: Perspectives on Modes of Subjectivity and the Curriculum as Art

Auteurs-es

  • Yaroslav Senyshyn Simon Fraser University

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.11575/jet.v33i2.52572

Résumé

Educational authoritarianism does not tolerate or provide the opportunity for individuals to write significant curriculums with the creative and personal intensity of art. Authoritarian meddling discourages experienced teachers from collaboratively interpreting so-called "aims and objectives" and other modes of written expression. The police-like approach, governmental fawning, sycophantic committee work and the railroading of insidious and dominating curriculums etched in stone will ultimately fail and betray us. We need a greater shift toward the personal and an active recognition for interpretation of authentic curriculum texts as art in our teaching practices. Authoritarianism can only lead to the eventual and diminishing returns in our schools and institutions.

Biographie de l'auteur-e

Yaroslav Senyshyn, Simon Fraser University

Yaroslav Senyshyn studied at the University of Western Ontario, London, and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. He is an Associate Professor of philosophy of music and aesthetics at the Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. His activities there are shared between performing, writing, and teaching.

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Publié-e

2018-05-17

Numéro

Vol. 33 No. 2 (1999)

Rubrique

Articles

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