51.022 - Pare! Stop! ¡Detener! Epistemicide Agora! Now! ¡Ahora! [#GetFreeWithDivB]

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Questions of knowledge, power, and difference are central to curriculum studies. For centuries, Western Eurocentric epistemologies have colonized knowledge and posed as the most legitimate and trustworthy basis for universal claims to truth, justice, and the common good. Indigenous knowledges have been minimized, refused, denied, and even disappeared by what B. De Sousa Santos (2014) refers to as epistemicide - the murder of knowledge. In an effort to reWrite (Wynter, 2003) the current order of knowledge, de Sousa Santos and others (Parasekva, 2016) advocate for the plurality of relational knowledges. In this session, scholars from different places in the Americas take up the issue of curriculum epistemicide and the possibilities for movement building toward (cognitive, affective, aesthetic) justice.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies

Chair

• Anthony L. Brown, The University of Texas at Austin

Discussant

• Denise M. Taliaferro Baszile, Miami University

Panelists

• Joao Pereskeva, University of Massachusetts

• Maria Luiza Süssekind, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

• Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, OISE/University of Toronto

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