期刊名称:Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies
印刷版ISSN:1916-4467
出版年度:2011
卷号:9
期号:2
页码:5-29
语种:English
出版社:Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies
摘要:The presence of disability, an embodied form of extreme vulnerability that is socially enacted, introduces into complex systems such as education or society, a perturbation, embodied agents that are biologically and socially constructed as being 'unfit', 'mal-adapted' or who do not adapt easily to the specific ecologies in which they must operate and thus gestures toward a current limit(ation) (and new beginning) of the complexivist framework for theorizing the pragmatic question of "How we should act?" What is required of us in our interaction with dis/abled agents who are circumscribed by not being fully "capable of adapting... to the sorts of new and diverse circumstances that an active agent is likely to encounter in a dynamic world" (Davis & Sumara, 2006, p.14)? In this paper I present a "complicated conversation" among complexity thinking, curriculum theorizing, and disability studies in education and argue that d is -embodiments prompt a certain type of ethical mindfulness