60.016 - Mobilizing Canadian Curriculum Research as Counterpointed Breakthroughs

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

The Canadian field of curriculum studies is gifted with the presence of several creative
scholars who bring differing innovative theoretical and methodological ideas for us to listen to, reflect on, and synthesize in relation to our research methodologies and our curriculum theorizing. However,the tasks of Canadian scholars and respective conceptualizations of the term “curriculum” still remain many things to many people. Such pervasive meaningfulness—that everything goes and counts as “curriculum studies”—has provoked several potential threats and breakthroughs to the epistemological, discursive, and pragmatic fabric of our community. For this symposium panel, we have invited prominent representatives from the different special-interest groups (SIGS) that comprise
the Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies (CACS) to discuss how we might continue to study, provoke, analyze, synthesize, re-interpret, and narrate the very idea of Canadian curriculum studies as
a counterpointed composition. Moreover, the symposium panel will provide an opportunity for the audience to learn more about Canadian curriculum research that is innovating and provoking breakthroughs within our broad field of study.

Sub Unit

• Canadian Society for the Study of Education - CSSE / Canadian Society for the Study of Education

Chairs

• Robert Christopher Nellis, Red Deer College

• Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, University of Ottawa

Papers

• Métissage/Memory/Denkbild/Trespass: The Worldliness of Canadian Curriculum in Between Indigenous, Ecological, and Trans/National Wisdom Traditions - Teresa Jean Strong-Wilson, McGill University; Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, University of Ottawa; Erika L. Hasebe-Ludt, University of Lethbridge; Robert Christopher Nellis, Red Deer College

• Challenges and Innovation in the Canadian Science Education Research Community Science Education Research Group Executive - Dawn Wiseman, University of Alberta; Carol Ann, Butler Rees, Thompson Rivers University; Lydia E Carol-Ann Burke, University of Toronto; Jerine Pegg, University of Alberta; Christine D. Tippett, University of Ottawa

• The Habitus of Artless Knowledge and the Future Inhabitable - Sean P. Wiebe, University of Prince Edward Island

• Reimagining Literacy Futures: That Was Then, This Is Now - Jennifer Rowsell, Brock University

Discussant

• William F. Pinar, The University of British Columbia