Cultural Translation: Curricular Discourses With/in the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies

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Abstract

This paper contemplates multiple meanings of “curriculum” grounded in theory of cultural translation. The notion of “cultural translation” fosters openness, fluidity, and mobility by working at the cultural and social limits of universal/universalized concepts (Bhabha, 1994; Butler, 2000). The author examines the sociocultural limits of a generalized concept of “curriculum” so as to create an openness of discourses on curriculum studies. Furthermore, the author investigates how cultural translation could extend discourses in regard to the current Internationalization of Curriculum Studies movement. A “discomfort” of doing research challenges the truthfulness and to explore discursively and socio-politically constructed meanings of self/other, truth, and transcendence (Pillow, 2003). This inquiry invites readers to consider complicated meanings of culture, authority, curriculum, and internationalization.

Author

• Seungho Moon, Oklahoma State University - Stillwater