41.019 - Curriculum of Love, Justice, and Peace? Genocide of Education? Cross-Cultural Dialogue

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Scholars from China, India, Indonesia, Argentina, Japan, and the U. S. dialogically and theoretically examine historical and narrative accounts of grassroots efforts to overcome curriculum initiated by conquerors and their conquests in transcultural contexts. They charge the genocide of education that is supported by corrupt corporate states and their acts of terrorism, hatred, and brutality. Continuing the example of Daisaku Ikeda’s sixty-plus books of cross-cultural dialogue, participants explore historical and contemporary instantiations of curriculum of love, justice, and peace. They address key questions about the possibility of this kind of curriculum vision to overcome oppressive and genocidal curriculum for children and youths in the increasingly contested and unjust world.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 4: People and Politics (The Who of Curriculum)

Chair

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

Papers

• Overview: Curriculum of Love, Justice, and Peace - William (Bill) H. Schubert, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Ki Hadjar Dewantara: Curriculum of Indigenous Cultural Traditions of Radical Love and Evolving Peace - Dinny Risri Aletheiani, Yale University

• Gandhi: Curriculum of Love, Nonviolence, Justice, and Peace - Namrata Sharma, State University of New York

• Tu Weiming: Contested Curriculum Traditions in China - Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University

• Tsunesaburo Makiguchi~Daisaku Ikeda: Curriculum of Love, Peace, and Value Creation - Jason Goulah, DePaul University

• Rodolfo Kusch: Curriculum of Indigenous Thought From Argentina - Gonzalo Obelleiro, DePaul University

Discussant

• Jim Garrison, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University