Autobiography of a Democratic Nation at Risk: The Currere of Culture and Citizenship in the Post-9/11 American Wilderness

Reframing the curricular challenge educators face after a decade of school deform, the books published in Peter Lang’s Complicated Conversation series testify to the ethical demands of our time, our place, our profession. In this resounding series of scholarly and pedagogical interventions into the nightmare that is the present, we hear once again the sound of silence breaking, supporting us to rearticulate our pedagogical convictions in this time of terrorism, reframing curriculum as committed to the complicated conversation that is intercultural communication, self- understanding, and global justice.

The Author: JoVictoria Nicholson-Goodman, a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh’s Social and Comparative Analysis of Education Program, was twice awarded the Paul Masoner School of Education International Fellowship Award. She has taught curriculum and foundations courses for seven years, both as an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh and currently as Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations at Penn State, Harrisburg. Her prior publications include Mapping an Autobiography of Post-9/11 America: A New Paradigm for Policy-making - Constituencies for a Curriculum of Possibility (2007); and Mapping Practitioner Perspectives of «It’s research-based» Scientific Discourse, Speech Acts, and the Use and Abuse of Research, with Noreen B. Garman (2007). Her research interests include curriculum studies, social theory, foundations of education, educational policy studies, global education and citizenship studies, and comparative qualitative inquiry.