Chapter 3 Loyla's Familial Curriculum Making in the Home and Community

Abstract

As we opened this chapter in relation with Loyla's life, we did so with a transcript excerpt from a research conversation in which Loyla spoke about a series of experiences shaping much unhappiness in her life; they were experiences also creating significant concern for Orie. On the day in May when Loyla, Orie, and Janice engaged in the conversation from which the transcript excerpt is taken, Orie and Loyla had, just hours prior, participated in an after-school meeting with Mrs. Gallagher. Orie explained to Janice that she had requested the meeting as a result of a series of situations unfolding over a number of months between Loyla, Cicily, and Ahlam. Recounting the events to Janice, Orie began with Loyla's shift in inviting Ahlam to her birthday party. Initially, Loyla suggested Ahlam as a friend she wanted to invite but then, the next morning, she told Orie she no longer wanted to invite Ahlam because Cicily had said that if Ahlam was invited, she would not attend (Journal entry, Orie, December 8, 2008).

Citation

Huber, J., Shaun Murphy, M. and Jean Clandinin, D. (2011), "Chapter 3 Loyla's Familial Curriculum Making in the Home and Community", Huber, J., Shaun Murphy, M. and Jean Clandinin, D. (Ed.) Places of Curriculum Making (Advances in Research on Teaching, Vol. 14), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 27-52. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-3687(2011)0000014005