LEADER 04007nam 2200709 450 001 9910438227103321 005 20220923214745.0 010 $a94-6209-362-8 024 7 $a10.1007/978-94-6209-362-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000024482 035 $a(EBL)1636881 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001049409 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11579135 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001049409 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11018601 035 $a(PQKB)11556929 035 $a(DE-He213)978-94-6209-362-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3034882 035 $a(OCoLC)862883060 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789462093621 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1636881 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3034882 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10793348 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1636881 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10983198 035 $a(OCoLC)904403480 035 $a(PPN)176130780 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000024482 100 $a20131115h20132013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCurriculum and the life erratic $ethe geographic cure /$fLeslie B. Nissen 205 $a1st ed. 2013. 210 1$aRotterdam :$cSense Publishers,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (143 p.) 225 1 $aTransgressions : cultural studies and education 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a94-6209-361-X 311 $a94-6209-360-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- Introduction: Curriculum and the Life Erratic -- The Confounded Life of an 80-Proof Home -- The Unhinged Lives of Kids on the Move -- Drinking and Driving (Away) -- ?Hold Still? -- The Geographic Cure Writ Large -- References. 330 $aCurriculum and the Life Erratic: The Geographic Cure lays bare the untold damage done to children who are forced to endure the toxic combination of "fermented parenting" (as author Leslie Nissen has termed it) and frequent family moves at the hands of alcoholic parents who perpetually seek the elusive Geographic Cure. While such parents deceive themselves that in the next new place, sobriety will prevail, their children know better. Alcoholics who chronically uproot their families for a fresh start usually carry along every reason to drink. For the school-age children of such cure-seeking alcoholics, the torment of life with a volatile, unpredictable and chronically intoxicated parent is intensified by the anguish of being ?the new kid? who changes schools at the whim of the parent. Highly mobile children, bearing an alarmingly long list of prior schools, may be part of a group which Nissen calls Geographic Cure Children, whose chances of finding help are nearly non-existent, despite their acute need for care. The dilemma of this unique subset of Children of Alcoholics is examined via autobiographical, psychoanalytic and fictional lenses. Nissen also recounts her own urge to hit the road when diagnosed with cancer, and explores the Geographic Cure writ large, observing how the current ?testing frenzy? and clamor for cures for low test scores dominate educational policy. Could teachers? panic about accountability cause them to resent new students who appear at their classroom doors mid-year? Is education encumbered because, at the hands of policy-makers, educators are working the Life Erratic? 410 0$aTransgressions (Rotterdam, Netherlands) 606 $aChildren of alcoholics 606 $aChildren of alcoholics$xEducation 606 $aAlcoholism$xSocial aspects 615 0$aChildren of alcoholics. 615 0$aChildren of alcoholics$xEducation. 615 0$aAlcoholism$xSocial aspects. 676 $a143 700 $aNissen$b Leslie B$01043718 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910438227103321 996 $aCurriculum and the life erratic$92915047 997 $aUNINA