The Method and the Madness: Though this be madness, yet there is method in't...

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't...

Greetings and Salutations.

My name is Jenn Broome (but if you're reading this blog, you probably already knew that). I am starting my third year of my PhD program as an ABD. This blog is my attempt to chronicle this process, and hopefully communicate the trials, tribulations, small victories, and occasional joys of writing a dissertation.

Let the games begin.

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(Current) Dissertation Reading

Adler, M. (1982). The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto. New York: Touchstone.
Bakhtin, M. M. (1981). The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M.M. Bakhtin (C. Emerson & M. Holquist, Trans.). Austin: University of Texas Press.
Bakhtin, M. M. (1986). Speech Genres and Other Late Essays (V. W. McGee, Trans.). Austin: University of Texas Press.
Bakhtin, M. M. (1990). Art and Answerability: Early Philosophical Essays by M.M. Bakhtin. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Clark, B. (1997). Social Ideologies and Gifted Education in Today's Schools. Peabody Journal of Education, 72(3/4), 81-100.
Cuban, L. (1993). How Teachers Taught: Constancy and Change in American Classrooms, 1890-1990. New York: Teachers College Press.
Danto, A. (1968). Analytic Philosophy of History. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
Derrida, J. (1974). Of Grammatology (G. C. Spivak, Trans.). Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.
Derrida, J. (1978). Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences (A. Bass, Trans.). In Writing and Difference (pp. 287-294). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Dewey, J. (1997). Experience and Education. New York: Free Press.
Eagleton, T. (2003). After Theory. New York: Basic Books
Eagleton, T. (2007). Ideology: An Introduction (2nd ed.). London: Verso.
Eisner, E. (1992). Objectivity in Educational Research. Curriculum Inquiry, 22(1), 9-15.
Eisner, E. (1994). The Educational Imagination: On the Design and Evaluation of School Programs (3rd ed.). New York: MacMillan College Publishing Company.
Ely, M., Anzul, M., Friedman, T., Garner, D., & Steinmetz, A. M. (1991). Doing Qualitative Research: Circles Within Circles. Oxon, England: RoutledgeFalmer.
Jackson, P. (1992). Conceptions of Curriculum and Curriculum Specialists. In P. Jackson (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Curriculum (pp. 3-40). New York: Macmillan.
Lévinas, E. (2006). Humanism of the Other. (N. Poller, Trans.). Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Morson, G. S., & Emerson, C. (1990). Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Pinar, W. (Ed.). (1975). Curriculum Theorizing: The Reconceptualists. Berkeley, CA: McCutchan Publishing Corporation.
Pinar, W., Reynolds, W., Slattery, P., & Taubman, P. (1995). Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to the Study of Historical and Contemporary Curriculum Discourses (Vol. 17). New York: Peter Lang.
Postman, N., & Weingartner, C. (1973). How to Recognize a Good School (Vol. 30). Bloomington, Indiana: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation.
Purpel, D., & Ryan, K. (1976). It Comes with the Territory: The Inevitability of Moral Education in the Schools. In D. Purpel & K. Ryan (Eds.), Moral Education...It Comes with the Territory (pp. 267-275). Berkeley, CA: McCutchan Publishing Corporation.
Reid, W. (1978). Thinking About the Curriculum. London: Routledge & Keegan Paul.
Rosenblatt, L. (1994). The Reader, The Text, The Poem: The Transactional Theory of the Literary Work (2nd ed.). Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP.
Rosenblatt, L. (1995). Literature as Exploration (5th ed.). New York: The Modern Language Association.
Silverman, L. (1997). The Construct of Asynchronous Development. Peabody Journal of Education, 72(3/4), 36-58.
Slattery, P. (1995). Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era (Vol. 1). New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.
Vygotsky, L. (1986). Thought and Language. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press