Rethinking Educational Change: Cultural-Historical Analyses of Educational Reforms Across and Beyond National Boundaries

• In Event: Roundtable Session 2

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

The papers in this symposium take up the challenge to approach how “educational change” has historically played out in a wide range of education narratives, and practices and policies from multiple sites around the world (Guatemala, China, Turkey, and Luxemburg, and Korea). The papers, each in a unique way, trace the historicity of educational change, that is the historical conditions that make “change” possible and thinkable in their particular temporal and spatial configurations, exploring what is done to the concept of change and what it has done to the people it has been acted upon –whether in the form of educational and linguistic reforms in Guatemala to solve the “Indian problem,” pedagogical and quasi-scientific projects in Turkey to solve the “social question,” use of tourism as an innovative strategy to tackle the “rural issues” in China, and curricular reforms in Luxemburg as sites of fabricating modern citizens.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Section 5: Historical, Philosophical, and Disciplinary Knowledges

Chair

• Jinting Wu, University of Macau

Papers

• Tourism as Spatial Pedagogy in Rural Ethnic Education - Jinting Wu, University of Macau

• Alfabetización - Ligia L. Lopez, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Pedagogy as a Political Science: Curriculum as a Site of Power, Knowledge, Ethics, and Aesthetics - Yasin Tunc, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• In the Name of Progress and National Autarchy: The Importance of Innovation for the Manufacturing of Citizens in 19th- and 20th-Century Luxembourg - Catherina Schreiber, The University of Luxembourg

• Globalizing Future Citizen: Curriculum Reforms and Citizenship Education in South Korea - Ji-Hye Kim, University of Wisconsin - Madison