A Delicate Dance: Autoethnography, Curriculum, and the Semblance of Intimacy
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Drawing on data gathered through a three-year autoethnography, A Delicate Dance couples the author's experiences teaching multicultural education and learning to zydeco dance in order to explore semblances of intimacy across self and other. More specifically, the book looks at semblances of intimacy embodied on the dance floor and the implications such intimacy might have for thinking about curriculum and qualitative research. This lively narrative encourages readers to consider what it might mean to envision curriculum as an embodied locale - much like zydeco dancing - where the play of epistemological forces replaces technocratic force; and where students experience the relative weight of desire, fear, and knowledge, the reciprocal touch of self and other, and the mysterious momentum of the semblance of intimacy.
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LOC Call Number
GV1588.5 .J46 2008
ISBN
9781433103087
Publication Date
2008
Department
School of Education
Publisher
P. Lang
City
New York
Recommended Citation
Jewett, Laura M., "A Delicate Dance: Autoethnography, Curriculum, and the Semblance of Intimacy" (2008).