I received my official letter from NYU yesterday; my defense is scheduled for March 11 at 10 a.m.
I think that my next project is going to focus on fiction, specifically novels, that have as their subject the gifted individual. I am for now going to limit this project to texts written in the 20th and 21st century. I was inspired to take this tack because of Muriel Barbery's wonderful book The Elegance of the Hedgehog. Anyone who works with gifted people (children or adults) would do well to read it. It is beautifully written and a fairly accurate depiction of the problems in being gifted as well as the joys of finding others who are in the same situation. Some other novels of the same bent:
1. Laurie King's series on Mary Russel and Sherlock Holmes (quite good)
2. Nikita Lalwani's Gifted (not quite as good, but servicible)
3. William McBride's Entertaining an Elephant (fantastic, written by a NC native, and sadly out of print)
4. David Liss' The Ethical Assassin (hilarious)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't." -Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2. A chronicle of the pratfalls, circumlocutions, and general hilarity of writing a qualitative dissertation.
Important Dates (If One Believes Time Exists as a Construct)
- January 22, 2009: Dissertation Filing Deadline
- Feb. 23-April 3, 2009: Oral Examinations
- May 11, 2009: Hooding Ceremony
- May 14, 2009: NYU Graduation
The Madness Behind the Method
- Jenn Broome
- Cincinnati by way of Manhattan by way of North Carolina, United States
- ...by day, a mild-mannered PhD student; by night, a self-styled pedagogical ethicist!
Research Rationale (i.e. Profile)
- School: New York University
- Program: PhD, English Education
- Status: Passed my Defense!
- Dissertation Topic: Site-Specific Curricular Documents
- Dissertation Research Methodology: Case Study; Interview; Focus Group
Hey, it's the In-tar-Web!
(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
(Current) Ludic Reading
- Everything by Robert Barnard
- Get Fuzzy (a new collection was just released!)
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
- The Sierra Lavatoni Series
- Various essays by Umberto Eco
1 comment:
Gifted like The Talented Mr. Ripley?
Good luck on the defense!!
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