Sensuous Curriculum

Walter S. Gershon, Kent State University

• Series Foreword: Landscapes of Education; William H. Schubert and Ming Fang He.Introduction: Articulating Sensuous Curricula; Walter S. Gershon.Chapter 1. Activate or Evacuate? Roles of a Sensorium in Debates Over Onto-Epistemology; Bernadette Baker.Chapter 2. Syncopation, Sensing, and Sense-Making: The Genealogies of Julia Kristeva and Michel Foucault; David Lee Carlson and Joseph D. Sweet.Chapter 3. Welcoming What We Cannot Imagine: Sensory Curriculum in Teacher Education; Lee Airton.Chapter 4. War of the Half-Breeds: Communities of Color as a Resistant Response to Raced and Racist Education in the Midwest; Boni Wozolek.Chapter 5. Blackness, Love, and Sensuousness as Praxis; Valerie Kinloch and Carlotta Penn.Chapter 6. The Visceral Curriculum; Avi Lessing.Chapter 7. Intersecting Race, Language, and Identity: Toward a Sensuous Curriculum of Investment; Awad Ibrahim.Chapter 8. The Ontological Problem of Contemporary U.S. Education: A Nonlinear, Sensuous Critique; Walter S. Gershon.Chapter 9. (Un)Boxing the Senses: Curricular Practices of Sensory Ethnography; Kimberly Powell and Sue Uhlig.Chapter 10. Sensuous and Artistic Curriculum Towards the Disruption of the Normative; Anniina Suominen.About the Authors.

This collection engages and challenges readers to think more deeply about questions of curriculum in connection to the sensuous in ways not typically considered, existing multi-dimensionally in transdisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and cross- disciplinary work. This compelling, intellectually stimulating, exhilarating volume is a canonical contribution everyone must study."" — Theodorea Regina Berry Professor and Chair, African American Studies College of Social Sciences, San Jose State University""Dr. Gershon’s edited collection, Sensuous Curriculum: Politics and the Senses in Education, makes the case for corrective action. By exploring the sensory as human experience, curriculum, and political, the authors of this volume offer iterations and variations for interrupting the ignor(anc)es of the sensorium in education and the body in making sense."" — M. Francyne Huckaby Associate Dean, TCU School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Professor, Curriculum Studies, TCU College of Education & Center for Public Education""I thoroughly enjoyed sensing this book. This collection defies the conventional popular trends that sit inside the classic curriculum vinyl on our bookshelves. And in Aokian fashion, Walter Gershon has successfully brought together an ensemble of curriculum scholars who dare us to improvise and replay the possibilities and limitations of educational research as a tantalization of our senses. The research put forth in this collection not only promises to the break barriers of our thinking, but also makes significant contributions to and beyond post-humanism, new materialism, curriculum and affect theory. All serious scholars—artists, teacher educators, teachers, graduate students, community activists—of curriculum studies will want to purchase a copy of this carefully, crafted, curated sensuous collection. Without reservation...put the needle on their record, cause I am one of their biggest fans."" — Nicholas Ng-A-Fook Professor, Director of Teacher Education, Indigenous Teacher Education, Co-Director of the Réseau de Savoir sur l’Equité/Equity Knowledge Network, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa