The Reconceptualization of U.S. Curriculum Studies in Context: The 1960s and the AERA Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies SIG

• In Event: Roundtable Session 54
  In Roundtable Session: Remembering, (Re)living, and Reflecting: Curricular and Cultural History

Abstract

The purpose of our synoptic rendering is to advance historical understandings of the reconceptualization of US curriculum studies. With this purpose in mind, we provide a contextualized reading of archival documents from the AERA Special Interest Group on Critical Issues in Cultural and Curriculum Studies, abbreviated as the CIC&CS. Understanding the key role of the CIC&CS’s activities in the reconceptualization of US curriculum studies, we historically contextualize the CIC&CS’s activities, provide a reading of its archival documents, and locate the reconceptualization within an institutionalization of 1960s anarchic rupture. Overall, our synoptic rendering advances historical understanding of US curriculum studies reconceptualization by providing a dialectic reading of both historical context and specific archival documents key to the reconceptualization.

Authors

• James C. Jupp, Georgia Southern University

• William (Bill) H. Schubert, University of Illinois at Chicago