Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>This dissertation examines a subset of Children of Alcoholics, whom I call Geographic Cure Children, who cope with both fermented parenting (as I have termed it) AND transient schooling. Viewed by schools and school systems simply as “highly mobile” students, their frequent school changes tell only part of the story. Geographic Cure Children arrive at their newest classrooms bearing the heavy burdens of emotional trauma and dark secrets about the Life Erratic. However, due to frequent mobility, their access to help or support is sketchy at best. Through currere, I employ autobiographical and psychoanalytic lenses to explore the intersection of curriculum theory and the Geographic Cure. I first discuss the effects of parental alcoholism, then examine the impact of frequent family moves upon school-aged children in general. What follows is my assertion that the chaotic melding of those two conditions – fermented parenting and high mobility – results in the singular experience of the Geographic Cure Child. I then describe my own (cancer-fueled) cure-seeking journey. Lastly, I examine the Geographic Cure writ large, where I contend that the incessant quest for a “cure” monopolizes education. I compare policy-makers in education to cure-seekers who chronically chase after the Next Better Plan.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Doctor of Education in Curriculum Studies (Ed.D.)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation (open access)
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Department of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading
- Year dc:date.available
- 2012
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Nissen, Leslie B.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Daniel Chapman
- John A. Weaver
- Mary Aswell Doll
Subjects
dc:subject × 9Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/792
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd-1795