This book focuses on the curricular life of teachers at one high school, and features work by nine of those teachers from a variety of fields who have pursued doctoral degrees and remained at the school. These colleagues have helped produce a staff of "teacher students" across the campus, people who are committed to teaching and also committed to learning, to approaching life and the world as something to study, to recognizing that being students ourselves is an excellent way to guide the students in our classrooms. The authors in this book explore the ways they live in a "liminal," or "between" space in the high schoolnot quite a high school teacher, not quite a professor, but a "liminal scholar" who can participate effectively in multiple curricular spaces, and encourage conversation and understanding across those spaces.
So many people in education talk about "life-long learning," and the people in this book exemplify that idea.
Focusing on the curricular life of teacher students, this book features work by nine teachers who pursued doctoral degrees and remained at the same school. Teachers and students at this "liminal high school" live and work in multiple curricular spaces.
Acknowledgments - John A. Weaver: Inventing Scholarly Lives - David P.
Owen, Jr.: Introduction: Inventing Hope - Jack D. Arrington:
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1.
Humble Beginnings - Jack D. Arrington:Chapter
2. Conducting the Orchestra -
Kathleen E. Barbara:
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3. Trials and Triumphs: A Timeline of My
Teaching Journey - Kathleen E. Barbara:
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4. Spanish Language Success
Stories: Insights from My Most
Achieved Learners - Stacey T. Brown:
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5. The Space Between the Wall
and the Bed - Stacey T. Brown:
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6. Teacher on Trial: The Case of the
Public Intellectual - John H. Cato:
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7. Seeking the Fundamental,
Elegant, and Simple - John H. Cato:
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8. The High A: Operas Highest
Note Should Be Educations, Too - Mary K. Davis:
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9. Never Say Never -
Mary K. Davis:
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10. The Power Struggle in Education - Thomas J. Davis:
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11. Dr. Coach Davis - Thomas J. Davis:
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12. Athletics and
Education: All Men Were Created Equal, Then Some Became Athletes - Kay R.
Lilly:
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13. An Educators Path: Journey of an Unexpected Teacher - Kay
R. Lilly:
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14. Building Bridges: Ensuring Every Voice Is Heard Within
the Social Studies Classroom - Dawn R. May:
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15. Finding Anchorage -
Dawn R. May:
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16. The Ontology of Metamodernism and the Reconstruction
of Human Civility - David P. Owen, Jr.:
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17. How Way Leads on to Way -
David P. Owen, Jr.:
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18. Getting the Big Screen Through a Small Door:
Film and the High School Classroom - Notes on Contributors
David P. Owen, Jr., is a liminal scholar who teaches and writes in a variety of fields in Augusta, Georgia. His works include calling you home (2021), Field Theory: Curriculum Studies at Work (2019), Fireflies: Memory, Identity, and Poetry (2017), The Need for Revision: Curriculum, Literature, and the 21st Century (2011), and Once Out Loud (2004).
