Improvisation as a Curricular Metaphor: Imagining Education for a Rural Creative Class

Autor/in	Corbett, Michael
Titel	Improvisation as a Curricular Metaphor: Imagining Education for a Rural Creative Class
Quelle	In: Journal of Research in Rural Education, 28 (2013) 10, (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1551-0670
Schlagwörter	Rural Education; Figurative Language; Criticism; Films; Video Technology; Literacy Education; Creative Activities; Foreign Countries; Educational Research; Safety; Curriculum; Cultural Background; Parent Attitudes; Preservice Teachers; Middle School Students; Social Class; Teaching Methods; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Kritik; Film; Ausland; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Sicherheit; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Elternverhalten; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Kanada
Abstract	Rural communities contain a largely unacknowledged innovative capacity founded on improvisational traditions. These traditions may be rooted in work practices in agriculture and other rurally-based productive activities but today they have expanded into other lifeworld locations, particularly virtual spaces that accelerate time-space compression. I make the case here that in the networked world of high modernity or postmodernity, both the nature of rurality and the potential of rural education need to be theorized differently. I begin with a critique of Richard Florida's metrocentric idea of the creative class, then move to reconceptualizing rurality as a real and imagined space, and conclude by analyzing a film and video project in an Atlantic Canadian school that used improvisation in literacy curriculum work. I argue that improvisation is a potentially productive metaphor for curriculum, one which draws on rural traditions and local funds of knowledge while at the same time incorporating a productive, forward-looking engagement with new technologies. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Penn State University College of Education, Center on Rural Education and Communities. 310B Rackley Building, University Park, PA 16802. Tel: 814-863-2031; Web site: http://www.jrre.psu.edu/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10