The Constitution as Curriculum and Public Pedagogy

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Across nations, far right groups are pushing agendas that restrict reproductive freedom, LGBTQI people's rights, and indigenus knowledge and land. In the US this push has affected and will continue to affect the lives of all of us, beyond the country's borders. On the other hand, Chile is about to vote on a new constitution that promises to undo the colonial/neoliberal roots of Chile society and guarantee human rights and indigenous peoples communal rights as well as the rights of nature.
Grounded in the Chilean process, this symposium proposes a dialogue between scholars from Chile, USA and Honduras on constitutions as a public curricula and how they teach about the ideas of “who are” and what is (or not) possible.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Anti-Colonial Studies in Education

Chair

• Andrea Lira, Teachers College, Columbia University

Papers

• Social Movements as Decolonial Educational, Curricular, and Pedagogical Spaces - Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, Texas Tech University

• Feminist Discussions for Education in the Chilean Constitution - Ana Luisa Muñoz, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Carolina Munoz Rojas, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

• Curriculum Conversations Around the New Constitution: Calling Into Question the Neoliberal Subject? - Roxana Chiappa, Universidad de Tarapaca

• Constitutions as Public Pedagogy: (Re)Making and (Re)Framing Established Ideologies - Andrea Lira, Teachers College, Columbia University; Dinorah Sanchez Loza, The Ohio State University

Discussant

• Elisa Loncon, Universidad de Santiago de Chile