This article explores the idea that everyday moments hold cosmopolitan potential wherein such recognition can reorient educators and youth toward one another in meaningful and generative ways. Found in the quotidian practices of young people are indicators of their affiliations, their proclivities, their interests, and their curiosities.…

This article develops the familiar metaphor of teaching as performance towards a definition of "teaching as performative act," where words and actions aim to effect cognitive, affective, and behavioral changes in learners. To what extent, however, are the consequences of pedagogical actions commensurate with their intended effects? Can a science…

Drawing on critical whiteness studies, I examine a performance I did over 25 years ago in high school, in which I told a story at an awards program. I interpret my performance as later-day blackface minstrelsy--one without blackface, but with a black folktale and with ways of speaking and moving that my audience recognized as "black." I build up…

Suggests autobiography, story telling, and theater as metaphors for education researchers hoping to honor the spontaneity, specificity, and ambiguity of knowledge. Describes an experiment with teachers using multiple theatrical narratives as a way to explore choices and uncover experience. (MLH)

Approaches curricular issues in the framework of critical theory and attempts to move through curriculum critique to a demonstration of what curriculum practice is implied by a critical framework. (Author/MLF)

American Indian education fails because schools force acceptance of a nonindigenous world view and ignore native people's perceptions of life, spirituality, art, time, mores, and learning practices. A University of Calgary experiment demonstrates that the creative arts, especially spontaneous drama, are more effective learning vehicles for native…