CONTENTS
Foreword: Reflections on the Place of Curriculum ix
William H. Schubert
Acknowledgements xxvii
Introduction: Understanding Place as a Social Aspect of
Education 1
David M. Callejo Perez, Stephen M. Fain, & Judith J. Slater
I.Place as a Social Tool 7
1.The Construction of Public Space 9
Stephen M. Fain
2.The Erosion of the Public Space 35
Judith ]. Slater
3.The Fall of the Public Academic 53
Donna L. Adair Breault
II. The Aesthetics and Environment of Place 77
4.Traces, Patterns, Texture:
In Search of Aesthetic Teaching/Learning Encounters 79
Margaret Macintyre Latta
5.An Environment for Developing Souls:
The Ideas of Rudolph Steiner 97
Bruce Uhrmacher
6.School as Parkland:
The Re-invention of a "Story of School" 121
Cheryl ]. Craig
III. Place as Political and Historical 147
7.Away with All Teachers:
The Cultural Politics of Home Schooling 149
Michael W. Apple
8.Identity, Literature, Schools, and Race: Southern Writers and Literature as a Metaphor
for Place 175
David m. Callejo Perez
9. Getting from Farmhouse to Schoolhouse:
School Consolidation, Pupil Transportation, and the Limits of Educational Reform in Mississippi
Corey Lesseig 205
Epilogue 227
David M. Callejo Perez, Stephen M. Fain, &Judith /. Slater
List of Contributors 229