Curriculum and the Life Erratic

The Geographic Cure

Leslie B. Nissen

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English

Brill
01 January 2013

Education; Educational strategies & policy; Curriculum planning & development

Series: Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education

Curriculum and the Life Erratic: The Geographic Cure lays bare the untold damage done to children who are forced to endure the toxic combination of fermented parenting (as author Leslie Nissen has termed it) and frequent family moves at the hands of alcoholic parents who perpetually seek the elusive Geographic Cure. While such parents deceive themselves that in the next new place, sobriety will prevail, their children know better. Alcoholics who chronically uproot their families for a fresh start usually carry along every reason to drink.

For the school-age children of such cure-seeking alcoholics, the torment of life with a volatile, unpredictable and chronically intoxicated parent is intensified by the anguish of being the new kid who changes schools at the whim of the parent. Highly mobile children, bearing an alarmingly long list of prior schools, may be part of a group which Nissen calls Geographic Cure Children, whose chances of finding help are nearly non-existent, despite their acute need for care.

The dilemma of this unique subset of Children of Alcoholics is examined via autobiographical, psychoanalytic and fictional lenses. Nissen also recounts her own urge to hit the road when diagnosed with cancer, and explores the Geographic Cure writ large, observing how the current testing frenzy and clamor for cures for low test scores dominate educational policy. Could teachers' panic about accountability cause them to resent new students who appear at their classroom doors mid-year? Is education encumbered because, at the hands of policy-makers, educators are working the Life Erratic?

By: Leslie B. Nissen
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 96
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 235g
ISBN: 9789462093607
ISBN 10: 9462093601
Series: Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education
Pages: 146
Publication Date: 01 January 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Curriculum and the Life Erratic: The Geographic Cure

This book is truly a life changing read, written at times with a pacey writing style blended with a reflective personal diary narrative all combined with detailed research and an impressive list of references. --Gifted Education International (a SAGE publication) 2015 Offers a well-needed insight into the lives of children with alcoholic parent(s) / carer(s) and asks important questions about how education and educators can better support children who are living transient lives as their parents/carers move from place to place in an endeavour to escape the challenges they face. --Power & Education, Vol 7(3) 2015