A Settled Curriculum: Spatial Production in the Curriculum of Booker T. Washington and John Dewey

• In Event: 68.061 - Roundtable Session 30
  In Roundtable Session: 68.061-16 - Space and Place in Curriculum Studies

Abstract

Centering the concepts of settler colonialism and spatiality, I examine the writings of two educational theorists whose work is focused on the connection between knowledge and action: John Dewey and Booker T. Washington. Both discussed a connection between “doing,” and education that made their educational models particularly focused on the relationship between education and land and are therefore starkly illustrative of the ways that education as mode of spatial production helps shape the settled landscape. I argue for the importance of attending to the spatial production of curriculum and pedagogy and particularly as these social processes relate to the material accumulation of settler land.

Author

• Bayley Marquez, University of California - Berkeley