The words, legends, maps, post-cards, and poems within this study are an
exploration of geography curriculum, poetics, and embodied knowledge. There are three
main sections and a supplement to this atlas. The first section is an exploration of semiotic
theory and the notion of poetics. I inquire into structures of signification, the relationship
between our words and our worlds, and the spaces of possibility that relationship opens for
the inclusion of embodied knowing. The second section of this atlas is an exploration of
geography curriculum in British Columbia and Saskatchewan, and of recent developments
within academic human geography writ large, regarding existing constructions of geography
and poetics and embodied knowledge. An attention to language, writing, and embodied
knowledge can be found within academic geography, yet these same concerns have not been
considered within Canadian curricular geography. The third section of this atlas is an
exploration of post-structural approaches to reading/writing, and poetic possibilities on a
personal level. Within this section, poetic language is explored as a genre for facilitating
embodied knowledge within geography curriculum. The supplement to the atlas is a part of
the atlas that finishes the form, and was written in an interpretive, poetic, and playful spirit.
The underlying premise of this research is that how we write the world affects and
reflects in the same instant how we understand and live in the world (our words and worlds
perform a mingling dance of signification); therefore, attending to how we graphy the geo is
of curricular concern (especially if we consider that curriculum provides the medium for us
to understand self and world). Transformation of geography curriculum, and an inclusion of
embodied approaches to (re)writing the world of curriculum theory (and dissertations) are
the aims of this research.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/9500 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Hurren, Wanda Jean |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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