A Decolonized Curriculum Future: Toward Geopolitical Traditions of Educational and Cultural Criticism

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The purpose of our symposium is to relocate the history of curriculum studies’ Reconceptualization within the exigencies of a broader decolonizing curriculum project. Drawing on decolonizing curriculum traditions, our symposium critiques existing histories of curriculum studies’ Reconceptualization as emerging from US-centered, Anglophone, and whitened assumptions. Beginning with this historicized critique of the Reconceptualization, presenters in this symposium contest the Pinarian notion of the internationalization as the “third paradigm” of US curriculum studies, and instead we emphasize the arduous decolonizing project of moving curriculum studies toward geopolitical traditions of educational and cultural criticism. Overall, presenters in our symposium, working distinct traditions including Korean, Chinese, Indonesian, Latin American, and US traditions begin to lay out a post-epistemicidal curriculum futurity.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 2: Histories and Futurities (The Frames of Curriculum)

Chair

• James C. Jupp, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Papers

• Rethinking Self-Other and Neoliberalism From Eastern Epistemology - Seungho Moon, Loyola University Chicago

• Reprovincializing Reconceptualist Curriculum Studies: The AERA Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies SIG - James C. Jupp, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; William (Bill) H. Schubert, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Decolonizing Curriculum Project in Indonesia: The Relevance of Perguruan Taman Siswa - Dinny Risri Aletheiani, Yale University

• Life Education, Curricular Reflections, and Radical Educators - Todd Alan Price, National-Louis University

• "Diversity" Never Again: Alternative Temporalities in Curriculum Studies - Ligia L. López López, The University of Melbourne

Discussants

• Joao Menelau Paraskeva, University of Massachusetts

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