{"product_id":"bloods-will-speculative-fiction-existence-and-inquiry-of-currere-paperback","title":"Blood's Will: Speculative Fiction, Existence, and Inquiry of Currere - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam F. Pinar\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMorna McDermott McNulty\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBlood's Will: Speculative Fiction, Existence, and Inquiry of Currere\u003c\/i\u003e, main character Campbell Cote Phillips--a successful university professor, mother, and wife--faces the question \"what would she give up to have everything else?\" Her comfortable life takes an unexpected turn when she discovers that not everything is always as it appears to be. The story unfolds between the 1970s and contemporary Baltimore, weaving together the experiences of Finn (an unusual vampire with a strange history) and Campbell--along with a cast of characters across different generations--whose stories are portrayed in base-relief against the promise, or peril, of immortality. \u003ci\u003eBlood's Will\u003c\/i\u003e is about love and desire, but it is also about family, friends, and the choices we all make. To be human is to sacrifice. To be vampire is to have endless opportunities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs Noel Gough writes, \"Understanding curriculum work as a storytelling practice has been a key theme in the reconceptualisation of curriculum studies during the last three decades, encapsulated by Madeleine Grumet's formulation of curriculum as 'the collective story we tell our children about our past, our present, and our future.'\" Situated as a story embedded in the four stages of \u003ci\u003ecurrere\u003c\/i\u003e, the journey of the book's main characters exemplifies the journey of recursion: the regressive, the progressive, the analytical, and the synthetic. \u003ci\u003eBlood's Will\u003c\/i\u003e is an example of speculative fiction that \"can contribute to an aspect of effective deliberation that Schwab called 'the anticipatory generation of alternatives'\" (Gough). This book is a useful reading for courses examining roles of narrative, fiction, and \u003ci\u003ecurrere\u003c\/i\u003e as fields of inquiry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMorna McDermott McNulty\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professor in the College of Education at Towson University, where she teaches teachers how to teach. She also teaches a class about vampires. Her books include \u003ci\u003eThe Left Handed Curriculum\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAn Activist Handbook for the Education Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her partner and two children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 260\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 28, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50381639385325,"sku":"9781433157677","price":86.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/lDasS5FPnR9781433157677.webp?v=1785679853","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-au\/products\/bloods-will-speculative-fiction-existence-and-inquiry-of-currere-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}