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Curriculum Studies and Historicizing the Present: The Political and the Impracticality of Practical Knowledge

Sun, April 6, 8:15 to 10:15am, Marriott, Floor: Fourth Level, Franklin 12

Session Type: Symposium

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The symposium focuses on the system of reason in schooling as a “social fact”, studied to understand the rules and standards that order what is known, talked about, and acted on. The papers interrelate historical and ethnographical studies to explore issues of power/knowledge in the commonsense “concepts” of school reforms and curriculum, such as “practice”, “context”, indigenous voices, “youth”, “grit” as a characteristic of the Excellent/Effective teacher, and teaching children about the equal sign. The historicizing of what seems self-evident is a strategy of resistance and counter-praxis. Making visible the authority of the existing system of reason is a strategy to open the future to possibilities of alternatives other than those already present.

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