Poster #2 - Empiricisms and Post-Truth Politics: Thinking Curriculum in the Current Era

• In Event: 31.094 - MTCC Poster Session Six
  In Poster Session: 31.094-1 - Curriculum on the Truths/Ethics Borderlands

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to approach the phenomenon of post-Truth politics as an important site of inquiry for the field of curriculum theory. To problematize the relationship between schooling and the present, we define curricula as the empirical frameworks that shape our acts of knowing, being, and relating to the world. In doing so, we turn to the concept of empiricism, which demands that we attend simultaneously to how curricula writ large influence our ontology, epistemology, and the methodologies that shape our understandings of knowledge, truth, experience, and what it means to be human. We end by suggesting that the radical empiricism of John Dewey offers different resources for reconstructing our curricular theories and practices.

Authors

• Tristan Gleason, Moravian College

• Asilia Franklin-Phipps