Books by Donald S. Blumenfeld-Jones

This book addresses the crucial issue of how we value and deploy the idea of ¿freedom¿ that underlies contemporary curriculum studies. Whether we are conventional curriculum thinkers who value knowledge development or favor a Deweyan, individualist orientation toward curriculum or are a critical social justice curriculum thinker, at the heart of all these orientations and theorizing is the value of ¿freedom.¿ The book addresses ¿freedom¿ through novel sources: the work of Martin Buber on education, Julia Kristeva on the uses of imagination and the female/male dialectic, Emmanuel Levinas¿ unique approach to ethics, and more. Readers will find new ways to understand freedom and the world of ethical life as informing curriculum thinking. It provides a more ecumenical vision that can draw our differences together. It helps readers to reconsider ourselves in fruitful ways that can bring more relevance and substance to the field.

Suitable for those who are involved in the arts and education, this book brings together the author's work on the intersection of curriculum theory and practice with aesthetics, ethics, and hermeneutic inquiry, focusing on the body and emotions and the theory and practice of Arts-Based Education Research, including his noted "Hogan Dreams".

This book explores Levinas' phenomenology of ethical motivation. In this book, the author locates this ethics in embodiment, emotions, and imaginations and explores the intersection of aesthetics and education.