A delicate dance
Subtitle: autoethnography, curriculum, and the semblance of intimacy
By: Laura M. Jewett.
Series: Complicated conversation -- v. 28
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9781433103087
Subjects: Dance -- Anthropological aspects -- Louisiana; Zydeco dance -- Study and teaching -- Louisiana; Educational anthropology -- Louisiana; Dance in education
Description: "Drawing on data gathered through a three-year autoethnography, A Delicate Dance couples the author's experiences teaching multicultural education and learning to zydeco dance in order to explore semblances of intimacy across self and other. More specifically, the book looks at semblances of intimacy embodied on the dance floor and the implications such intimacy might have for thinking about curriculum and qualitative research.

This lively narrative encourages readers to consider what it might mean to envision curriculum as an embodied locale - much like zydeco dancing - where the play of epistemological forces replaces technocratic force; and where students experience the relative weight of desire, fear, and knowledge, the reciprocal touch of self and other, and the mysterious momentum of the semblance of intimacy."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: To and fro among autoethnograpy and curriculum; title: Dancing across metaphors of location; title: Dancing autoethnography; title: Dancing a curriculum of multicultural education; title: Zydeco dancing, white Delilas, and the semblance of intimacy; title: From force to the play of forces.