75.015 - Advocacy and Activism in Curriculum Studies: Reconceptualizing the Field

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium addresses curriculum studies’ relevancy to the concrete realities and emergent identities of youth and scholars who are becoming increasingly transmogrified by the heavy hand of neoliberalism and academe’s corporatization. Through a critical examination of activism and advocacy and a particular focus on how scholars conceive of and carry out educational interventions, participants advance alternative conceptions of curriculum studies as a field replete with possibilities to generate greater understanding and more transformative practices to contest dominant power structures in society. Drawing from perspectives that range from critical race theory and counter narrative pedagogy to decolonial thought and theological ethics, participants displace dominant perspectives on what makes for robust and ‘worthy’ learning, being, knowing and doing in the world.

Sub Unit

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

Chair

• Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University

Papers

• Tracing the Field: Toward a Different Narrative of the Growth and Decline of Curriculum Studies in North America - Erik L. Malewski, Kennesaw State University

• Mothering While Black in the Academy - Nichole A. Guillory, Kennesaw State University

• "In Relation": The Radical Act of Curriculum as Theological Text - Reta Ugena Whitlock, Kennesaw State University

• When the Walls Talk: A Counterstory for Curriculum Studies - Denise M. Taliaferro Baszile, Miami University

• Decolonial Philosophy of Praxis: Resituating "Activism" in Curriculum Studies - Nathalia E Jaramillo, Kennesaw State University

Discussant

• Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University