Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Subjectivity as a Counternarrative

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Abstract

In this paper, the authors engaged in a duo-ethnographic study that explored curriculum, pedagogy and subjectivities as a counter narrative. The authors reflected on their experiences as two teacher educators teaching in a university in the upper Midwest. In examining their experiences, they gained deeper appreciation for the need to continuously re-understand our subjective positions in all aspects of our work. The authors evidence how part of their counter-conduct lies in their abilities as educators to engage in critical self-reflection as a radical form of subjectivity through which to re-understand the past in the present and hopefully re-imagine a more just and equitable future.

Authors

• Jim Burns, Florida International University

• Christine Wanjiku Nganga, The George Washington University