Kirjahaku

Situated within the contemporary U.S. scholarly curriculum studies field that concerns itself directly now with "worldly" influences on its work both within and without America, this book addresses current tensions in the field, writ large. It does so by tracing the antecedents of these tensions as the U.S. field has moved toward internationalization, and by conceptualizing notions of "working tensions" and "communities without consensus" as possible ways to resist eradicating diversity or colonizing differences as the field grapples with issues and dilemmas spawned by such internationalization efforts. It raises the question of what it means to trace the evolution of a field of studies while taking into account the partial, contingent, and fluctuating subject position of the person doing such a survey. What is particularly valuable in this book by esteemed curriculum scholar Janet L. Miller is her first-hand account of the emergence and evolution of the field of curriculum studies along with her theoretical understanding of its partiality.

Janet L. Miller is one of the most important and influential curriculum theorists of our time. Sounds of Silence Breaking presents a broad range of her writing from the last two decades. This book contains portraits of self-complicating work that disrupt unitary and normative conceptions of women, autobiography, and curriculum. Miller reconceptualizes curriculum theory through the application of her own theories, as well as those of other important figures in the movement. She also utilizes her extensive collaborative research with K-12 teachers and juxtaposes her essays in ways that invite the reader to view them as self- and cross-interrogating. Read together, these pieces underscore how changing narrative and interpretive practices have framed and re-framed constructions of her gendered work and selves as academic woman , curriculum theorist , and qualitative researcher .