Division B Preconference Seminar. Location in the Age of Traveling Discourse: Place-Based Education and Community-Centrism Versus Hybridity, Mobility, and Transculturalism? (Day 1 of 2)

Session Type: Seminar

Abstract

One of the challenges of curriculum development, educational policy, and multicultural societies is the apparent tension between place-based and community-centered child-rearing, policy-making and practice and the fluidity, mobility, and hybridity of populations and more. This seminar will consider, compare, and contrast recent theories of mobility and place-based and community-centric education. Mobility theories focus not only on the global and local mobility of traveling peoples but also on the multiple intersecting mobilities of capital, objects, information, images, as well as the virtual and imaginative. In his call for a 'mobilities paradigm,' for example, John Urry portrays the social itself as mobility. This preconference seminar will critically examine the claims surrounding this mobility turn in the social sciences for the curriculum field and its objects of study and methods.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies