Division B Preconference Seminar: East-West, North/Global South, or None of the Above? Onto-Epistemological Issues in Curriculum Studies (Day 2 of 2)

Session Type: Seminar

Abstract

A common narrative in curriculum studies is that knowledge-production is changing in the midst of complex societies, which are themselves transforming within 21st century circumstances. Yet, to invoke sociological and geopolitical frameworks as the explanation for what is going on “now” already makes certain ontological and epistemological assumptions about the nature of reality, time, space, the human, mind-body, species, life, death, learning and education. This seminar focuses on more varied, dynamic, and conflicting philosophies/cosmologies/worldviews to critique the limits of what has become coded as east, west, north, global south, and the margins that even these signifiers spawn. It asks participant to rethink what is claimed as real, as material, as visible, as concrete, etc., from the perspective of frameworks that challenge some of the onto-epistemological assumptions driving much of the work in curriculum studies. The seminar will help participants to consider the practical and messy implications for education, multicultural classrooms, and curriculum that a shift from knowledge to wisdom might offer.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies