Public Acts: Disruptive Readings on Making Curriculum Public

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Introduction Making Knowledge in Public: Overturning an Audience......Page 15
1 Poverty, Policy, and Research: Toward a Dialogic Investigation......Page 25
2 Desire and Betrayal in Community-Based Research......Page 40
3 Waadookodaading Indigenous Language Immersion: Personal Reflections on the Gut-Wrenching Start-Up Years......Page 57
4 Trials and Tribulations for Social Justice......Page 69
5 Theater Forum at the Urban Odyssey School: A Case Study......Page 83
6 Write it, Get it: Motivating Youth Writers......Page 93
7 Take Two on Media and Race......Page 103
8 “When I close my classroom door…”: Private Places in Public Spaces......Page 116
9 Working between University and Community: Shifting the Focus, Shifting the Practice......Page 136
10 How Research Can Be Made to Mean: Feminist Ethnography at the Limits of Representation......Page 153
11 How New Yorkers Said No to War: An Experiment in Message and Action......Page 160
12 Encounters with Memory and Mourning: Public Art as Collective Pedagogy of Reconciliation......Page 178
Contributor Biographies......Page 203
Index......Page 207