- Browse/Search the Program
Search
On-Site Program Calendar
Browse By Day
Browse By Time
Browse By Person
Browse By Room
Browse By Unit
Browse By Session Type
- Information Menu
About AERA 2023 Annual Meeting
Program Information
Key Dates / FAQ
Search Tips
- Navigation and Settings Menu
Change Preferences / Time Zone
Sign In
Sharing Curriculum History With Janet Miller
Sat, April 15, 2:50 to 4:20pm CDT (2:50 to 4:20pm CDT), Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park, Floor: 2nd Level, Ambassador RoomAbstract
Janet L. Miller and I are the same age; we pursued PhD studies in the early 1970s, and we entered the Curriculum Field at roughly the same time; we experienced many of the transitions, tribulations, and triumphs of striving to contribute to what curriculum studies was becoming, and are now retired. Janet is Professor Emerita from Teachers College of Columbia University, and I am Professor Emeritus from The University of Illinois at Chicago. Recently, during the era of COVID restrictions of travel and togetherness, my spouse and colleague, Ming Fang He, has arranged for Janet and myself to engage in approximately ten Zoom conversations on our experiences in the curriculum field. Each conversation is from 1.5 to 2 hours in length. After editing, we plan for it to be published as a book and/or a YouTube video.
In this paper I will reflect on the curriculum history we have lived through (partially drawing on the above-mentioned conversations) and on the lived experiences we have shared. Beginning with our time as teachers (Janet as a high school English teacher and my experience as an elementary school teacher), doctoral studies (Janet with Paul Klohr at The Ohio State University, and mine at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with J. Harlan Shores), our attempts to broaden curriculum studies through pre-Bergamo and Bergamo Conferences, and through being chairs of the AERA Special Interest Group on Creation and Utilization of Curriculum Knowledge (which later morphed into the SIG on Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies) and still later via other roles, such as Division B (Curriculum Studies) Program Chairs and Vice Presidents. Our work in the field, reflections on precursors who influenced us, our mentoring of doctoral students, service in leadership positions, interactions with key contemporary scholars, and visions of the future, will all be part of this autobiographical/memoir-istic portrayal.