Curriculum Theory in the Time of Leavening: Ditching the Pipeline, and the Living Curriculum of Bread

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Abstract

This paper critiques the pipeline metaphor of academic productivity in order to better understand how this discourse shapes our academic lives as curriculum scholars and the curriculum theory we proliferate. Towards these ends, I draw from a yearlong autoethnographic experiment in which I closely chronicled the process of cultivating a starter, baked lots of bread and then applied these sourdough principles to the discursive and material practices of my intellectual life in order to explore how we might ditch the resource-stripping, extractivist pipeline metaphor in favor of discursive embodiments of a more fully leavened scholarly life and a curriculum theory on the rise.

Author

• Laura M. Jewett, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley