In this text Jardine, Clifford, and Friesen set forth their concept of "curriculum as abundance "and illustrate its pedagogical applications through specific examples of classroom practices; the work of specific children; and specific dilemmas, imag

David W. Jardine, Patricia Clifford, Sharon Friesen

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Introduction. S. Friesen, P. Clifford, D.W. Jardine, Preamble One: From Scarcity to Impoverishment. Chapter One: Ahn Linh's Shapes. D.W. Jardine, Preamble Two: Signs of Abundance. Chapter Two: Eight Pedagogical Preambles on Dolly the Sheep. D.W. Jardine, Preamble Three: On Play and Abundance. Chapter Three: Let Eric's Age Be X': A Brief Mathematical Phenomenology. D.W. Jardine, Preamble Four: Do They or Don't They?. Chapter Four: Welcoming the Old Man Home: Meditations on Jean Piaget, Interpretation, and the Nostalgia for the 'Original'. D.W. Jardine, S. Friesen, P. Clifford, Preamble Five: On Ontology and Epistemology. Chapter Five: Behind Each Jewel Are Three Thousand Sweating Horses: Meditations on the Ontology of Mathematics and Mathematics Education. D.W. Jardine, Preamble Six: Getting Over the Great Humiliation. Chapter Six: Abundance and the Limits of Teacher Knowledge. D.W. Jardine, J.C. Field, Preamble Seven: Monsters in Abundance (With Brent Novodvorski ). Chapter Seven: Disproportion, Monstrousness, and Mystery: Ecological and Ethical Reflections on the Initiation of Student Teachers Into the Community of Education. D.W. Jardine, Preamble Eight: Catch Only What You've Thrown Yourself.... Chapter Eight: Cutting Nature's Leading Strings: A Cautionary Tale About Constructivism. B. Johnson, L. Fawcett, D.W. Jardine, Preamble Nine: Stepping Away From the Marriage of Knowledge and Production. Chapter Nine: Further Thoughts on Cutting Nature's Leading Strings: A Conversation. D.W. Jardine, Preamble Ten: Within Each Dust Mote.... Chapter Ten: The Fecundity of the Individual Case: Considerations of the Pedagogic Heart of Interpretive Work. D.W. Jardine, Preamble Eleven: Given Abundance.... Chapter Eleven: On the Integrity of Things: Reflections on the Integrated Curriculum. D.W. Jardine, Preamble Twelve: Settling and Unsettling. Chapter Twelve: Under the Tough Old Stars: Meditations on Pedagogical Hyperactivity and the Mood of Environmental Education. D.W. Jardine, Preamble Thirteen: Kai Enthautha Einai Theous. Chapter Thirteen: On the Ecologies of Mathematical Language and the Rhythms of the Earth. D.W. Jardine, S. Friesen, P. Clifford, Preamble Fourteen: Abundant Webs. Chapter Fourteen: If You Want To: Inquiry and the Arrival of New Information and Communications Technologies Into the World of the Classroom. D.W. Jardine, J. Batycky, Preamble Fifteen: The Abundance of the Future. Chapter Fifteen: Filling This Empty Chair: On Genius and Repose. D.W. Jardine, Preamble Sixteen: Covering the Curriculum. Chapter Sixteen: The Individual Student. D.W. Jardine, T. Graham, A. LaGrange, H. Kisling-Saunders, Preamble Seventeen: The Face of The Real World. Chapter Seventeen: Staying Within the Lines: Re-Imagining What Is Elementary in the Art of Schooling. D.W. Jardine, T. Graham, S. Friesen, P. Clifford, Preamble Eighteen: Murmuring Over Texts. Chapter Eighteen: In His Own Hand: Interpretation and the Effacing of the Scribe. D.W. Jardine, Preamble Nineteen: On Emptiness and Abundance. Chapter Nineteen: Unable to Return to the Gods That Made Them.