Division B Vice Presidential Graduate Student Seminar: Marginalized Discourses in Curriculum Studies (Day 1 of 2)

Session Type: Graduate Student Seminar

Abstract

Within our current historical juncture where calls for inclusivity and multiculturalism have been veneers for neoliberal machinations, gestures towards these efforts have often been ahistorical and politically inept. Curriculum studies, an interdisciplinary field for decades, has been attuned to the ways in which the linkages of power relations, culture, and race have an impact on the politics of knowledge and knowing. This seminar will focus on the richness and vibrancy of the intellectual traditions of marginalized scholars in educational thought and curriculum studies. This preconference session will explore the history and theories of education and curriculum by African American, Latino, Indigenous, Asian American, and Queer scholars. Much of the current discourse has focused on adding these voices to the canon and in doing so brings these theories into discussion with dominant discourses. What might an institutional, identity-based intersectionality look like? How might the nexus of, perhaps, divergent identity and culturally based intellectual traditions speak to, with, and through one another? That is to say, how do we push the epistemological, methodological, and pedagogical boundaries and borders of multiculturalism to a space where the siloing and singularity of each of these theories and traditions can be brought into conversation with one another with the expectation and vow that such conversations will lead to a richer and more diverse p/K-college curriculum, and in addition where such conversation(s) will lead to academic research that is of great use and enlightenment because it considers the knowledge gained from the intersection of multiple perspectives?

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies