Curriculum Matters and Matterings: Reimagining Research Methodologies

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Historical and current accounts of “wicked problems” (Crowley & Head, 2017) include profound sufferings caused by subjugation, discrimination, violence, and loss across all geo-political contexts. Symposium presenters, from both South and North American curriculum studies, work from differing situated contexts, subject-matter disciplines and curriculum inquiry processes. They also employ diverse theoretical perspectives – but not only in response to AERA’s 2023 Call for research methodologies “to matter in public policy and practice” and in “fully equitable inquiry processes.” Symposium presenters also employ varied theoretical framings as means of re-turning and re-imagining curriculum research methodologies that might more directly address some of the unrelenting “wicked problems” that threaten teaching, learning, researching, and curriculum as vibrant daily becomings.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies

Chairs

• Mary J. Newbery, Quinnipiac University

• Saralyn McKinnon-Crowley, Baylor University

Papers

• Diffracting Autobiography: Curriculum Researching as Re-Turnings - Janet L. Miller, Teachers College, Columbia University

• I Can't Get No Satisfaction: "Backgrounding" Schools, Stakeholders, and Surveys - Mary J. Newbery, Quinnipiac University

• Post-Qualitative Curriculum Research: The Urgent and Necessary Commitment to Alterity - Elizabeth Macedo, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

• Reimagining Education and Method Through the Lens of Rhizomatics - Elena H. Silverman, Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis; Sophia Jeong, The Ohio State University; Saralyn McKinnon-Crowley, Baylor University; Maureen Negrelli Coomer, Colorado College; Elizabeth Adams St Pierre, University of Georgia