2017
DOI: 10.1111/edth.12225
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“A Fantasy of Untouchable Fullness”: Melancholia and Resistance to Educational Transformation

Abstract: Abstract. The progressive language of growth and development that informs our shared ideal of the educated subject also informs the curricular structure of schooling, in which new learning builds upon established knowledge and students'

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“…During recess, when staring out the window during a lesson, on the back of an assigned worksheet, in pushing conversations “off topic,” children in schools claim schole even in the midst of chronos. As the opening vignette suggests and is argued by Stillwagon ( 2017 ) mourning too is often present but at the boundaries. Yet, while children can and do make meaning on their own on the outskirts of the school curriculum, if we believe that adults and peers provide guidance, support, and help children make meaning then it is important that we find places to join children in these endeavors (Arendt 1954 ; Furman 2019 ; Silin 1995 ).…”
Section: Claiming Wander Time Within the Chronos Of Schoolmentioning
confidence: 92%
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“…During recess, when staring out the window during a lesson, on the back of an assigned worksheet, in pushing conversations “off topic,” children in schools claim schole even in the midst of chronos. As the opening vignette suggests and is argued by Stillwagon ( 2017 ) mourning too is often present but at the boundaries. Yet, while children can and do make meaning on their own on the outskirts of the school curriculum, if we believe that adults and peers provide guidance, support, and help children make meaning then it is important that we find places to join children in these endeavors (Arendt 1954 ; Furman 2019 ; Silin 1995 ).…”
Section: Claiming Wander Time Within the Chronos Of Schoolmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…“I went out of the schoolhouse fast/and through the garden to the woods,/and spent all summer forgetting what I'd been taught.” After listing a series of superficial learnings “two times two, and diligence and so forth,” Oliver concludes, “By fall I had healed somewhat, but was summoned back/to the chalky rooms and the desks to sit and remember” the summer beauty and meaning of the world around her. Not only does meaning and healing occur out of school but also school, for Oliver in this poem and Stillwagon ( 2017 ) is a hurt that must be recovered from.…”
Section: Claiming Wander Time Within the Chronos Of Schoolmentioning
confidence: 97%
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