Posthumanist Theory in the Service of Antiracist Curriculum Studies Scholarship

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 10

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

The session offers arguments for and examples of the application of posthuman social theory to the work of curriculum studies focused on anti-racist education and activism. Taking Karen Barad’s agential realism as a common touchstone, each of the papers approaches this topic in a unique manner, this ranges from conceptualizing racism as an agential phenomenon of which curriculum is a part, to the analysis of the materially co-constituted nature of racist intra-actions, to dealing with the unthought but highly active nature of racism in schools, to the idea that curriculum itself operates like an agent and teachers do not so much as deliver curriculum to students, as introduce or protect them from already circulating curricular agents.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 3: Methodologies, Cosmologies, and Philosophies (The Shaping of Curriculum)

Chair

• Maggie MacLure, Manchester Metropolitan University

Papers

• Curricular Racism as a Posthuman Agent - Jerry L. Rosiek, University of Oregon

• Curriculum and the Epiphenomenal Materiality of Racism - Reagan P. Mitchell, University of North Carolina School of the Arts

• The Unthought of Racism: Putting New Materialism to Work in Curriculum Studies - Robert James Helfenbein, Mercer University

• Conceiving Curriculum as Apparatus: Application to Antiracist Teaching - Alexander B Pratt, University of Oregon

Discussant

• Awad Ibrahim, University of Ottawa