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024	7		_a10.1007/978-94-6209-362-1 _2DOI
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100	1		_aNissen, Leslie B., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aCurriculum and the Life Erratic : _ba The Geographic Cure / _cLeslie B. Nissen.
264		1	_aLeiden; _aBoston : _bBrill | Sense, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aTransgressions: Cultural Studies and Education ; _v96
490	1		_aEducational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001
505	0	0	_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.
520			_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?.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aSciences sociales.
650		0	_aChildren of alcoholics _xEducation.
650		0	_aChildren of alcoholics _xPsychology.
650		0	_aSciences humaines.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tCurriculum and the Life Erratic: The Geographic Cure, _dLeiden Boston : Brill | Sense, 2013 _w9789462093614
830		0	_aTransgressions: Cultural Studies and Education ; _v96.
830		0	_aEducational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-362-1
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