Womanist Curriculum Perspectives and Possibilities

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Multiethnic scholars from different work places explore womanist perspectives on curriculum studies. We engage the audience from diverse curriculum paradigms in discussions on potentials, challenges, and possibilities of womanist ideas of curriculum inquiry and modes of expression and representation. We explore creative ways to write about curriculum inquiries and to engage in writings which embed inquiry in school, neighborhood, and community life to transform research into positive social and educational change. We share how our womanist perspectives, which include Black womanist, womanist activist, multiracial womanist, Chicana womanist, indigenous womanist, and Asian American womanist perspectives, address pressing issues and contemporary concerns, make impact on practice, policy, and historical, social, political, economic, geographical, cultural, linguistic, and ecological contexts, and advance curriculum theory.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Section 1: Critical and Post-Foundationalist Perspectives and Practices

Chair

• Nina Asher, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Papers

• Black Womanist Perspectives on Curriculum - Sabrina N. Ross, Georgia Southern University

• Womanist Activist Perspectives on Curriculum - Cynthia M. Mikell, Georgia Southern University

• Multiracial Womanist Perspectives on Curriculum - Sonia E. Janis, University of Georgia

• Chicana Womanist Perspectives on Curriculum - Isabel Nunez, Concordia University - Chicago

• Asian American Womanist Perspectives on Curriculum - Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University

Discussants

• Eve Tuck, SUNY - College at New Paltz

• Nina Asher, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities